Dropping WhatsApp? Nostalgia Drives Users to ICQ - The Wall Street Journal

HONG KONG—WhatsApp users around the world who are worried about the company’s shifting policy on data privacy are flocking to rival messaging apps such as Signal and Telegram.

ICQ was a pioneering, mid-1990s internet messaging service then used on bulky PCs on dial-up.

He has since connected with more than two dozen friends on the platform after some bristled this month at a privacy policy update by WhatsApp that would allow some data to be stored on parent Facebook Inc.’s servers.