There wasn't much history and background of private messaging apps. Private messaging apps were purposely created to prevent private messages from being read by an unauthorized person and being untraceable or destroyed once the messages are read. With the recent success and popularity of the app called Snapchat in 2014 and the disappearance of its messages, the Confide app developers created the app based on the same idea for Apple devices only, but will develop an Android version in the future. The difference is that Confide was created for use in the corporate workplace and to benefit employers who implemented it. Confide allowed business users to send confidential messages that could not be disclosed or traced through the legal discovery process used for emails. Private messaging apps replaced traditional email and phone call communications, which were either beneficial or dangerous for businesses, depending on their business ethics. The case had some details that were beneficial and harmful to businesses. The details were that if a message were to be traced, it would not happen because the legal discovery process used in email communications could not be used in the same way. With this in mind, employers have raised concerns that companies are vulnerable to inappropriate and unethical communication and behavior from individuals and Confide has removed them. Common issues triggered by the use of Confide in the workplace could have been discrimination, sexual harassment and insider trading. The advantage of Confide was that the application interface made it difficult to distrust messages...... middle of paper ...... Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.proxy .davenport.edu /docview/445919605?accountid=40195The disappearance of the “trust” text app may make it easier for spouses to cheat. (January 8, 2014). Retrieved April 17, 2014, from The Huffington Post website: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/phone-app-cheating_n_4564010.html Tracking software for iPhone. (nd). Retrieved April 1, 2014, from Retina (February 7, 2014). Newstex Entrepreneurship Blogs. Extracted from the ProQuest database. Whitlock, D.C. (September 2012). How to manage and regulate social media in the workplace. Building and Construction, 38. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.proxy.davenport.edu/docview/1173891821/80A48A677FDC4E84PQ/2?accountid=40195