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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.

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Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data (theintercept.com)

submitted 8 months ago by einat2346 to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

guessing it would mean that people wont be using the same username as they do on every other account. So if doodlebop69 can't be traced from signal they could go to google and find the same doodlebop69 to grab their information from

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But doodlebug69 needs to accept a message from you before you can see their profile info.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

They have the username already, they don't need to see their profile info to search for a username