And in many cases, governments have been explicit about their intentions to monitor private individuals’ conversations - a situation that affects not just those who are treading on sensitive, political ground, but those who simply don’t like the idea of others snooping on them. There, citizens protesting against leaders have often been thwarted in their attempts to communicate with each other and the outside world to organise and spread their messages. The full list of new languages - they are Arabic, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simple Chinese), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish - speaks to a number of countries (some 196 are covered by this language group), some of which have been very recent political hotspots. From today, the app - which has had “well over 3 million downloads” says CEO and co-founder Nico Sell - is adding language support for 22 languages on top of English, including Arabic, simple and traditional Chinese, and Russian. Wickr, one of the wave of secure messaging apps that have risen to prominence in the last year as people question how private their data and communications really are these days ( even among “private” apps), is expanding its sights globally.
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