Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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I don't really like Apple, but once in a while they do the right thing. This comes from the App store's new labels on apps.
Signal just has "Contact info" under the "Data NOT linked to you" category. This is just the phone number + contact discovery.
There's another post adding telegram here. This is what it looks like:
How is telegram holding up here?
Personally Signal seems the best, but I constantly have messages that get delivered like 12 hours late - which is a deal breaker.
Telegram is far far behind Signal. In terms of privacy, it's not owned by a big Corp but Signal isn't either, and from a technical perspective, Telegram has pretty no E2EE, while almost everything in Signal is E2E encrypted.
The issue with the messages being delivered late only happens when there are notifications issues too. Check your settings. Also, it seems that when an app isn't opened for a while, it looses the notifications. I have that issue with element.
Wasn't OpenWhisper Systems, the maintainer of Signal, acquired by Twitter?
According to the timeline on Wikipedia :
The foundation is still here and relies on donations, to pay for development and hosting. So what your saying is near the truth (and I wasn't aware of that actually) but today Signal is a fully independent non-profit.
Thanks, would that explain the change from TextSecure and RedPhone to their merger into Signal?
You can check out the Timeline on Wikipedia, they did change the name to Signal after merging RedPhone and TextSecure.