> “The only information responsive to the subpoena held by OWS is the time of account creation and the date of the last connection to Signal servers,” Kaufman continued, also pointing out that the company did in fact hand over this data.
Does it matter if they see our private messages when they hand all of the metadata (locations, usage patterns) to their own company Onavo to build extensive profiles? This for me is more of a concern than the message text itself.
Let this be a lesson for other messaging applications: giving users an ultimatum where they have to give up their privacy in order to continue using a product is a bad idea. Damage is done for users -- who have already accepted to give their contact lists and whatnot -- and for WhatsApp although at a much lesser degree. Network effects and migration costs will retain their users, but for how long?
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 31.1 ms ] threadBesides what they say is often not true anyway as history shows.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-sign...
> “The only information responsive to the subpoena held by OWS is the time of account creation and the date of the last connection to Signal servers,” Kaufman continued, also pointing out that the company did in fact hand over this data.