yyResearch rolls out privacy-focused instant messaging app OpusChat

Hong Kong tech startup yyResearch has launched an instant messaging app, claiming to offer privacy and safe communications to users. 

The OpusChat app does not require a phone number or an email address prior to registration. Instead, it provides every user a unique ID and QR code so other users can search or scan to make a new friend connection, ensuring that users are connecting to people they really know and eliminating any unsolicited phone calls or messages.

For users who wish to invite friends from their phone’s contact list to chat on OpusChat, they have the option to do so. Once a new friend connection is established, users have full control over how they interact with each other, what they can see, share or receive, and customise the settings for each connection. With these features, users can choose to be as private or as open as they like when using OpusChat.

“Privacy is not a luxury, it is a necessity. This is the very reason we decided to develop OpusChat, an ethical communication system that gives users control over how their relationships are established and managed, and eliminates any unsolicited contact. More importantly, OpusChat does not require users to share their personal information and minimises data storage to protect their privacy," said Edmund Hor, co-founder and CEO of yyResearch.

Moreover, the app also allows users to create multiple personas under a single account. Designed based on real life experience, this feature offers users the ability to customise and control how they present themselves and how they manage each relationship.

As safety is users' major concern, yyResearch reassures users that with its leadership and R&D team boasting more than two decades of experience developing secure commodity e-trading platforms for world class exchanges, national utility companies and multinational financial institutes, the app matches up to the industry's standard for end-to-end encryption, there is no tracking of user experience data and it minimises storage of user data to protect the privacy of the user.

Paul Blaikie, co-founder and CTO of yyResearch, commented, "We want people to be able to communicate securely and feel confident that their data is being treated with the utmost respect and not being used for nefarious purposes. We hope that OpusChat will set a new bar in user privacy control and protection, and we are very excited to be launching it."