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Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not OP

There's not a lot of negative press about them.

They complied with Swiss government requests to out the IP of a French activist.

It looks like they're really doing the best they can.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Correct. They comply with court orders, its a business. People still need to be secure in how they use it, which that guy wasnt. So if you're attempting to evade the government, use a vpn. All your data is encrypted, where you access it from and your billing information cannot be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do keep in mind proton also runs a VPN he may have been running their VPN and they complied.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If he was using their VPN, they wouldn't have been able to turn that over according to their own site: https://protonvpn.com/features/no-logs-policy#:~:text=No%2Dlogs%20VPN,lengths%2C%20or%20location.

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

They do have technical capability to do so. I just thing that is stopping then is "our trust"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

They do have the capability to not have the data requested. If they are not required by law(and it seems they aren't), why store any data? They may have to provide data of the sessions that are active right now but it's unlikely.