Signal is encrypted but they still feed meta data to Alphabet boys
Make no mistake that it is part of the us security apparatus.
While for most it really doesn’t matter, take note where we are heading in light of the recent adjustment to a affluent parasites life.
Who do you think the spooks will side during the first corpo war?
We just don’t know but they will know who you keep in touch with…
How so?
Signal also uses our metadata encryption technology to protect intimate information about who is communicating with whom—we don’t know who is sending you messages, and we don’t have access to your address book or profile information. We believe that the inability to monetize encrypted data is one of the reasons that strong end-to-end encryption technology has not been widely deployed across the commercial tech industry.
Source: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
I haven’t verified that claim investigating the source code, but I’m positive others have.