"PSA: Your Chat and Call Apps May Leak Your IP Address"

Popular messaging and calling apps may reveal a user's IP address to the person on the other end of a call. Most chat apps use peer-to-peer connections by default, which means the user and the person they are talking to connect directly to each other in order to improve call quality. This is not necessarily a significant risk, but experts say it is unclear whether users are aware of this potential privacy issue or how calls over popular messaging apps like Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Apple's FaceTime, Viber, Snapchat, and Threema work. This article continues to discuss chat and call apps potentially revealing a user's IP address to callers.

TechCrunch reports "PSA: Your Chat and Call Apps May Leak Your IP Address"

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