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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)

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[–] mipadaitu 71 points 3 weeks ago (40 children)

Not that the action against Telegram is right, but there's a big difference between what Signal and Telegram is doing.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Would you have more info on the differences? I was wondering the same thing, but I don't know enough about Telegram to compare

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

Signal always responds to authorities when they ask for data, and they give them all they have: the day they registered, their phone number and the timestamp they last used the app.

Telegram has unencrypted channels of drug dealing, and what I heard is a lot of illegal porn too. The authorities want information on certain users there and Telegram doesn't comply. This is directly against the law Signal is not breaking, because they always send all the data they have to the law enforcement.