Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In...
by Forbo on Friday January 25, 2019 @07:08PM
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For what it's worth, they don't retain any of that metadata. This has been tested in court:
> We’ve designed the Signal service to minimize the data we retain about Signal users, so the only information we can produce in response to a request like this is the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service.
> We’ve designed the Signal service to minimize the data we retain about Signal users, so the only information we can produce in response to a request like this is the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service.
https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/
This was even before sealed sender, so if anything my confidence in the Signal Foundation has only increased.