Maybe it doesn't sell all your data, but Signal's threat model is surveillance capitalism alone:
>The application uses a centralized computing architecture
>Registration for desktop use requires an iOS or Android device
>Signal uses mobile telephone numbers as an identifier for users.
>OWS had received a subpoena requiring them to provide information associated with two phone numbers for a federal grand jury investigation in the first half of 2016. Only one of the two phone numbers was registered on Signal, and because of how the service is designed, OWS was only able to provide "the time the user's account had been created and the last time it had connected to the service".
Which are big regressions compared to predecessors pgp and otr.
>The application uses a centralized computing architecture
>Registration for desktop use requires an iOS or Android device
>Signal uses mobile telephone numbers as an identifier for users.
>OWS had received a subpoena requiring them to provide information associated with two phone numbers for a federal grand jury investigation in the first half of 2016. Only one of the two phone numbers was registered on Signal, and because of how the service is designed, OWS was only able to provide "the time the user's account had been created and the last time it had connected to the service".
Which are big regressions compared to predecessors pgp and otr.