Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission

Re:Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones... by anilakar on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:52AM (#16677344)

Signal has a desktop app nowadays and Telegram still requires a phone number to use.

While Signal's QR code pairing method is more awkward than Telegram's SMS one, it also prevents your account from getting hacked remotely in Iran by stealing your SMS messages: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/49976/intelligence/tele...

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Re:Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones... by kome on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:59AM (#16677373)

But with Signal you still need a smartphone (i.e: very bad for privacy); while with telegram you don't. Also, with Telegram you can protect the account with a password, so you can use a burner phone, literally once, and then forget about it.

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Re:Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones... by def_true_false on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:53AM (#16678449)

With Telegram you have no privacy - no one uses the e2ee (secret chats). Perhaps because the desktop client doesn't support the feature, and even if it did, secret chats wouldn't sync across devices.

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Re:Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones... by kome on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:48PM (#16681395)

it's not like the chats are in clear text, because they are not. They aren't encrypted e2e, but they are still encrypted.

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