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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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[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Iirc from the last time this article or similar was posted, it's about how warrants are issued. It's the username versus phone number not username versus or and/or other data points. Anything more than that I am still unclear about.