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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by gentleman11 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:22PM (#25103898)
In my case, it’s because I heard (last year) that e2e was a planned feature, and not implemented yet. Is that information out of date?

Also wary of it wanting to upload my contacts list - could you comment on how it’s used? Or is that entirely up to the specific app?

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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by Arathorn on Sunday November 15, 2020 @03:02PM (#25104269)
E2EE has been implemented since 2016, and turned on by default as of May 2020.

Uploading contacts is strictly optional (and is missing on some platforms like Android currently, as per complaints elsewhere on this thread). They're used purely to discover which of your contacts are already on the platform - the privacy policy can be found at https://github.com/vector-im/policies/blob/master/docs/ident...

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