{"id":14447,"date":"2021-05-04T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/04\/hong-kong-tech-startup-yyresearch-launches-privacy-focused-instant-messaging-app-called-opuschat\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T10:15:00","slug":"hong-kong-tech-startup-yyresearch-launches-privacy-focused-instant-messaging-app-called-opuschat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/04\/hong-kong-tech-startup-yyresearch-launches-privacy-focused-instant-messaging-app-called-opuschat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Tech Startup yyResearch Launches Privacy-focused Instant Messaging App Called OpusChat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Multi-layer privacy options, multiple personas, secure multimedia messaging and voice calls make OpusChat a fun and safe app for everyday communication                            <\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 4 May 2021 &#8211;<b> <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yyresearch.com\/\">yyResearch<\/a>, a Hong Kong tech startup that specialise in software and app&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment, today launches <a href=\"https:\/\/opuschat.app\/?lang=en\">OpusChat<\/a>, a privacy-focused and safe communication system that models how&#13;<br \/>\nwe manage relationships and interact with each other in real-life. With its&#13;<br \/>\nmulti-layer privacy options, multiple personas, secure multi-media messaging&#13;<br \/>\nfeatures and high-quality voice calls, OpusChat is an instant messaging app&#13;<br \/>\nlike no other and is now available for download on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/id1008680858\">App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.yyresearch.chat.clearchat&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\">Google Play<\/a> Store.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/350x0\/148198\/Photo-with-caption.jpeg#image-148198\" width=\"350\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Modeling&#13;<br \/>\nReal-life Relationships and Interactions<\/h5>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Privacy is not a luxury, it is a&#13;<br \/>\nnecessity. People should have the ability to protect themselves from scammers,&#13;<br \/>\nspammers, stalkers, cyberbullies and doxing,&#8221; said Edmund Hor, co-founder and&#13;<br \/>\nCEO of yyResearch. &#8220;Personal information is not only being misused for monetisation&#13;<br \/>\nbut also provides material for fraudsters and identity thieves, making data&#13;<br \/>\nprivacy a growing concern for everyone. This is the very reason we decided to&#13;<br \/>\ndevelop OpusChat, an ethical communication system that gives users control over&#13;<br \/>\nhow their relationships are established and managed, and eliminates any&#13;<br \/>\nunsolicited contact. More importantly, OpusChat does not require users to share&#13;<br \/>\ntheir personal information and minimises data storage to protect their&#13;<br \/>\nprivacy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;With OpusChat,&#13;<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve developed a fun and safer way for everyone to connect and communicate,&#13;<br \/>\nand we are extremely excited to introduce this product to the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>OpusChat is a privacy-focused and&#13;<br \/>\nsafe mobile communication tool with all the features users look for in an&#13;<br \/>\ninstant messaging app and more.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Giving Users&#13;<br \/>\nFull Control Over Their Data and Privacy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>OpusChat does not require a phone&#13;<br \/>\nnumber or email when new users register to use the app. Instead, it provides&#13;<br \/>\nevery user a unique ID and QR code so that others can search or scan to make a&#13;<br \/>\nnew friend connection. This ensures that the user is connecting to people they&#13;<br \/>\nreally know and eliminates any unsolicited phone calls or messages. For users&#13;<br \/>\nwho wish to invite friends from their phone&#8217;s contact list to chat on OpusChat,&#13;<br \/>\nthey have the option to do so as well. Once a new friend connection is&#13;<br \/>\nestablished, users have full control over how they interact with each other,&#13;<br \/>\nwhat they can see, share or receive, and customise the settings for each&#13;<br \/>\nrelationship. With these features, users can choose to be as private or as open&#13;<br \/>\nas they like when using OpusChat.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Modeling&#13;<br \/>\nReal-life Relationships and Interactions<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>One of the unique features in OpusChat is allowing users to create&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Multiple Personas&#8221; under a single account. People have different identities&#13;<br \/>\nand play different roles when connecting with family, friends, colleagues, and&#13;<br \/>\npeople in different social circles. In real life, we can choose how we interact&#13;<br \/>\nwith each individual and there is a varying degree of intimacy with each&#13;<br \/>\nrelationship. This &#8220;Multiple Personas&#8221; feature was designed with this in mind,&#13;<br \/>\ngiving user the ability to customise and control how they present themselves&#13;<br \/>\nand how they manage each relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Providing&#13;<br \/>\nUsers Peace of Mind and Protection<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Prior to the launch of the OpusChat app, yyResearch&#8217;s leadership&#13;<br \/>\nand R&amp;D team have accumulated more than two decades of experience&#13;<br \/>\ndeveloping secure commodity e-trading platforms for world class exchanges,&#13;<br \/>\nnational utility companies and multinational financial institutes with an&#13;<br \/>\nindisputable reputation for high business integrity. With these experiences and&#13;<br \/>\nproven track record, OpusChat was designed and developed with the user&#8217;s privacy&#13;<br \/>\nand security in mind.\u00a0 The app matches up&#13;<br \/>\nto the industry&#8217;s standard for end-to-end encryption, there is no tracking of&#13;<br \/>\nuser experience data and it minimises storage of user data to protect the&#13;<br \/>\nprivacy of the user.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At yyResearch, we believe that systems are easier to use if&#13;<br \/>\nthey work in harmony with how we behave as human beings. We created personas to&#13;<br \/>\nmodel how we identify ourselves and interact with the various social groups in&#13;<br \/>\nour lives. We want people to be able to communicate securely and feel confident&#13;<br \/>\nthat their data is being treated with the utmost respect and not being used for&#13;<br \/>\nnefarious purposes. We hope that OpusChat will set a new bar in user privacy&#13;<br \/>\ncontrol and protection, and we are very excited to be launching it,&#8221; said Paul&#13;<br \/>\nBlaikie, co-founder and CTO of yyResearch.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Download photos of the OpusChat&#13;<br \/>\napp <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1wMygrDoDX8ngkkZyIeEpwxs5e6AOOrDw?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>For video introducing the key&#13;<br \/>\nfeatures of the OpusChat app, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6AxxJ9HFMkk\"><img style=\"margin-right: 7px;vertical-align: middle;display: inline-block !important;width: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/Release\/templates\/images\/socialMedia\/iconmonstr-youtube-6-24.png\"\/>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-05-04\/76707\/hong-kong-tech-startup-yyresearch-launches-privacy-focused-instant-messaging-app-called-opuschat\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-layer privacy options, multiple personas, secure multimedia messaging and voice calls make OpusChat a fun and safe app for everyday communication HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 4 May 2021 &#8211; yyResearch, a Hong Kong tech startup that specialise in software and app&#13; development, today launches OpusChat, a privacy-focused and safe communication system that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}