Move on to Signal now, says Paytm founder amid WhatsApp privacy row

Sharma along with Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and others is urging users to protect their privacy by moving on to Signal app

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma joined criticism of WhatsApp for allegedly endangering privacy with new changes to its policy, saying users must leave the Facebook-owned app and move to Signal.

Sharma, in a detailed tweet, accused Facebook and WhatsApp of abusing their monopoly as a messaging platform and taking away users' data for granted. He said that India is the largest market for WhatsApp and it has the power to reject such abuse of power.  

"They say, market has power. We are the largest market.  Here in India WhatsApp / Facebook are abusing their monopoly &  taking away millions of users'