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[–] Quacksalber 15 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Signal was already made to hand over all the data they stored for one account at least in the US, here is a video describing how that went: https://youtu.be/3oPeIbpA5x8

[–] PoTayToes 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tell me though, which company will not hand over what data they have when asked by their country's judiciary?

The question here is how much data they keep. Strict legal minimum or more.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You obviously didn't watch the video, the point made is not that there is information being handed over (every company has to comply with legal orders), but that Singal handed over nothing except 2 timestamps shared as integers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Congrats if you can stand more than a minute of this 4chan-esque garbage but I'm not gonna sit through 10 minutes of it while they stretch out getting to the actual point. If you want to bring forth an argument, don't start with "watch this random ass YouTube video" where I have to sit through some garbage and have to then fact check every potential point made.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Here's what the video is based on: https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/

I get not watching the video, I didn't, but why reply then? It's obvious you would be off the mark. Also, sometimes the description is enough to get what a video is about, here it was.

[–] PoTayToes 8 points 3 months ago

You are correct though, I did indeed not watch it. Hence I misunderstood the comment I was answering to as being negative towards Signal. Thanks for the added context.

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