• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Ruling class has been waging war on social media they dont have the ability to backdoor. My guess is they’d come for signal too if they didn’t use it themselves.

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      3 months ago

      The government don’t usually need the text from your conversations, just the metadata who the person talks to, their location, etc. Signal is a US company, they surely provide all that data. It seems Telegram didn’t.

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        3 months ago

        Signal does not. https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/

        Tl;dr: Signal gave the court timestamps for three out of nine phone numbers that the court demanded data on. The timestamps were the dates three phone numbers last registered their accounts with Signal. That’s it. That is all the data there was to give.

        This is why I use Signal. This is why I donate monthly to Signal.