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Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by celmit@lemmy.ca to c/signal@lemmy.ml

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

"You will still need a phone number for registration, but you can choose to share it with no one."

Except us, of course.

[–] pabloscloud@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't see that as a problem. They basically only save the phone number, creation date and date of the last connection to the server.

Signal was only able to provide two sets of data: the timestamp of when the account was created and the date of the last connection to the Signal server, as Signal does not store any other information about its users. source

[–] bartleby1@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

and it probably helps battle CSAM a lot too

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