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Signal introduces usernames and phone number privacy. (signal.org)

submitted 8 months ago by 7eter@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 8 months ago

I thought peoples big problem with it was not wanting to give others their number to use signal?

The issue is that giving your phone number to Signal Messenger LLC is giving it to others, and therefore not keeping it private in the usual sense of the word.

Some people may be unconcerned about a corporation knowing their number vs. their contacts knowing their number, but that doesn't diminish the misleading aspect of this headline.