“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”
This isn’t an ad, I wasn’t paid for this post. Just to clear the air: fuck facebook, fuck elon musk and twitter, fuck anyone who thinks this is a paid advertisement. I wish I was paid for this shit, I just wanted to spread the word. Thank you. 😀 👍
That information is easily found with a web search, so there is no need to think it’s a conspiracy. It’s funded by Bryan Acton’s “activist” funding (interest-free loans of $100 million+ total to Signal Foundation over the years) as well as by voluntary user donations and grants from many free press organizations. It is losing money every year in terms of revenue. I’d guess Acton used it as a huge tax write-off the year he sold WhatsApp to Facebook.
Signal Foundation tax forms: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840
What Signal says anout how they operate: https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/ https://signalfoundation.org/en/
Signal Privacy Policy: https://signal.org/legal/#privacy-policy
All the code, including what runs on their servers and in their apps, so you don’t need to take their word for anything. You can compile the signal client from source if you like: https://github.com/signalapp
Article which talks about their audit history (this is their weakest point. The full results of the audit were never published): https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/signal/