On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
yes most people seem oblivious what mass bulk data collection can do.
and nobody has yet to answer, if there is something to stop Signal from collecting metadata logs of its users and their groups.
it does not seem people understand this risk.
either way, nobody produced a reasonable position on this. so presumption is that signal can farm this data and sell/give it out. since best we got is Signal’s responses to US courts which would also be subject to the same conditions if national security type people got involved.
Wire uses Signal protocol and doesn’t harvest phone numbers, so I’m pretty sure we do actually know what the answer is. The fact that Signal made this design choice is very concerning to anybody who understand the implications of doing that.
yes most people seem oblivious what mass bulk data collection can do.
and nobody has yet to answer, if there is something to stop Signal from collecting metadata logs of its users and their groups.
it does not seem people understand this risk.
either way, nobody produced a reasonable position on this. so presumption is that signal can farm this data and sell/give it out. since best we got is Signal’s responses to US courts which would also be subject to the same conditions if national security type people got involved.
Wire uses Signal protocol and doesn’t harvest phone numbers, so I’m pretty sure we do actually know what the answer is. The fact that Signal made this design choice is very concerning to anybody who understand the implications of doing that.