Offering usernames will allow people to stop giving out their phone number —a sensitive piece of information— in order to connect with others on the messaging app. Encrypted messaging service Signal ...

End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal finally allows users to pick custom usernames to connect with others while protecting their phone number privacy. This is part of a beta rollout that follows ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

For those who care about digital privacy, it doesn’t get much better than Signal. For years, the end-to-end encrypted messenger has offered some of the best privacy protections on the web. Strong ...