Wow I didn’t realize that Signal is run on Amazon’s servers and that they contract with the CIA. This article has some interesting points to mitigate the privacy concerns of this real popular service: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/signal-messenger-guide-to-avoid-privacy-mistakes/

If that was the case then how come the FBI subpoenaed signal for that information and didn’t get it

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They did though. Individuals who are on the contact lists of on on individual can get investigated

The contact list built into your phone? Because that isn’t encrypted of course they would get it

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Last time I checked signal had phone numbers in there servers.

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