Some are quick to promote apps as being safe for your use just because they are encrypted. I will talk about how many of the popular apps that are commonly t...
We know Telegram and Signal have some metadata but neither are in the business of selling data.
That’s not really for us to know. In signal’s case, its domiciled in the US, and due to NSL laws, it’d be illegal for them to tell you that they’ve been forced to forward info to the US govt. Not only that, but a lot of their early funding came from the OTF, a US government fund.
Which actuially means we don’t “know” any of that - difference again with Facebook is it has sated in it’s privacy policy that it is sharing the metadata, so we do “know” that. We can’t just speculate about what others do unless we have evidence in some form. We do know that Signal and Telegram (as at now) are not in the advertsiing business, nor that their privacy policies state data is being passed on.
That’s not really for us to know. In signal’s case, its domiciled in the US, and due to NSL laws, it’d be illegal for them to tell you that they’ve been forced to forward info to the US govt. Not only that, but a lot of their early funding came from the OTF, a US government fund.
Which actuially means we don’t “know” any of that - difference again with Facebook is it has sated in it’s privacy policy that it is sharing the metadata, so we do “know” that. We can’t just speculate about what others do unless we have evidence in some form. We do know that Signal and Telegram (as at now) are not in the advertsiing business, nor that their privacy policies state data is being passed on.