[ebb_earl_co]

This is why I still prefer Signal; this practice seems to be their modus operandi even though they, too, were affected by AWS us-east-1 catastrophe

[autoexec]

Signal used to never collect data on users, but they've changed that a while ago and now they keep user's name, photo, phone number, and a list of their contacts permanently in the cloud protected from the government by nothing except by a leaky enclave and a pin (https://web.archive.org/web/20250117232443/https://www.vice....)

More recently they've started collected the contents of messages into the cloud too, yet to this very day their privacy policy opens with the lie: "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information." which hasn't been true for a very very long time. I consider their refusal to update their privacy policy to be a massive dead canary warning people that the service has already been compromised, but feel free to take your chances.

[hashiyakshmi]

You're able to disable the pin feature to prevent that data from being saved though, so it definitely isn't a requirement.

I'm also not sure where you've read that they collect the contents of messages, because as far as I'm aware they still aren't doing that and I can't find any info online that indicates that they are (other than their secure backup feature that's opt-in only I suppose)

[qmr]

Well shit.

Alternatives?

Was hard enough getting my circle on signal.

[hulitu]

> This is why I still prefer Signal;

You do realize that Signal's CEO is a "former" CIA asset, don't you /s