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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)

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[–] cowpattycrusader@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is really interesting. It brings two questions to mind.

Don't all messaging apps use phone number as a primary metadata value?
Are you suggesting that Signal could either not use this metadata or not collect it and yet they choose to collect it and can therefore lose it to exfiltration or warrant?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Nope, for example Wire is based on Signal protocol and doesn't harvest phone numbers https://wire.com/en
I'm suggesting that if metadata is being leaked then it has to be assumed that it will be used nefariously at some point

Exact same argument that applies for wanting e2e encrypted messages that aren't seen by the server also applies to any metadata associated with these messages.