GlobeX Data set to launch would-be WhatsApp rival SekurMessenger with America Movil's Telcel in Mexico this April

GlobeX Data Ltd (OTCQB:SWISF) (CSE:SWIS) (FRA:GDT) announced Tuesday that it has completed all internal testing of SekurMessenger, its Swiss-hosted encrypted instant messaging solution, ahead of its commercial launch in Latin America in April.  SekurMessenger, which also comes equipped with secure voice recording transfer and secure file transfer application, is expected to launch with help from telecom heavyweight Telcel in América Móvil SAB’s (NYSE:AMX) Mexico mobile division.  The secure messaging service has been fully integrated with Telcel's billing and provisioning platform and the commercial launch is expected to start the week of April 12.  The launch will begin in Mexico, the company said, and expand to other countries where America Móvil operates through its Claro brand, including Colombia and other Latin American countries. América Móvil is the seventh-largest telecom operator in the world with over 277 million mobile subscribers in over 20 countries throughout Latin America and Europe.  READ: How companies can protect themselves from Microsoft Exchange Server threats The goal for GlobeX Data and América Móvil is to offer a secure and private alternative to other non-secure and non-private messaging applications, including WhatsApp. The market is geared primarily for business and government users, as well as privacy-conscious consumers.  Recent data breaches in messaging applications, notably including WhatsApp, have created an urgency for businesses and data privacy advocates to protect their communications from cyber-attacks and identity theft through mobile and desktop devices, the company said. “We have received notice from Tecel, and other partners, that there is a growing demand to replace WhatsApp as a business messaging solution,” CEO Alain Ghiai said in a statement. “SekurMessenger is here to satisfy that demand, and as we are not connected, and never have been connected, to AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud platforms, commonly referred to as ‘Big Tech,’ we can offer a truly independent, private and secure means of communications through secure messaging, secure voice record transfer and secure email through our proprietary technology and our secure servers based in Switzerland.” SekurMessenger eliminates many of the privacy and security risks by not requiring a phone number, which would divulge a user's phone device ID, but also by not social engineering a user's phone or computer contact list, which would infect the contacts by default as well. Instead, SekurMessenger issues each user a username and an SM number, which functions as the contact ID a user would disclose in order for other SM users to be added, the company said. The service comes with a self-destruct timer, as well as GlobeX's proprietary VirtualVaults and HeliX technologies with all data stored in Swiss-hosted encrypted servers, the company said. SekurMessenger also now comes with a proprietary feature called Chat by Invites, which allows a SekurMessenger user (SM user) invite a non-SM user or users to chat securely, without the recipient having to register or download the app. At the end of the chat, the initiator can remotely end the conversation and all traces of it are deleted from all users. GlobeX believes the target sectors are numerous, including real estate, legal, financial, government, energy, mining, manufacturing, trade and medical sectors. "We are very happy to have completed the testing phase of the launch with Telcel and are looking forward to the launch in the next couple of weeks,” Ghiai said. “We have completed our Spanish language platform for SekurMessenger, and this means that we now can deploy other languages in the coming months as the groundwork for localization coding has been done.” GlobeX's privacy solutions are hosted in Switzerland, protecting users' data from any outside data intrusion requests, the company said. In Switzerland, the right to privacy is guaranteed in article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution, GlobeX noted. The Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) of 1992 established protection of privacy by prohibiting virtually any processing of personal data not authorized by the data subjects.  Under Swiss federal law, it is a crime to publish information based on leaked "secret official discussions." In 2010, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland found that IP addresses are personal information and that they may not be used to track internet usage without the knowledge of the individuals involved. Contact Andrew Kessel at andrew.kessel@proactiveinvestors.com Follow him on Twitter @andrew_kessel