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luckily, from the warrants they've received in the past we know that they don't store metadata, and the only information about the requested numbers that they've been able to provide to the court were the date of registering an account and the last time they were online, both in Unix epoch format: https://signal.org/bigbrother/
You have to keep the bigger context in mind here. Even if Signal only tracks your phone number, it can be easily correlated with other data that's associated with you that's aggregated from your online footprint.