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Privacy

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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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For example, on WhatsApp, use the whole 25 character limit for profile name. Examples:

Bob Moved To Signal.org

Alice MovedTo Signal.org

CharlieMovedTo Signal.org

Say Signal.org, not Signal, because they won't know it's an app.

Use your about section too. Same on Discord, Steam, Instagram, etc.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Signal aint perfect and current leadership is sus... giving me 'em Mozilla vibes.

I foresee another migration in my feature but currently it is the gold standard for at least some keeping your msg content "private"

Meta data collection is still a huge issue with Signal and its architecture nearly built this feature into it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Signal is designed to collect meta-metadata. They don’t hold any information that can tie a person to their account, but they definitely know how those accounts interact via their servers.

[–] Orygin 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They know my phone number. Which in Europe is tied to me. They absolutely hold info about who talks to who

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do they know your phone number? Only a cryptographic hash of it is sent to their servers.

[–] Orygin 1 points 1 month ago

Not really. See the support page regarding this:

As a new default, your phone number will no longer be visible to everyone in Signal. You can opt to display your phone number. However, people who have your number saved in their phone’s contacts will still see your phone number, regardless of your settings, since they already know it.