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> They have sprinkled them into different countries and they claim that servers from different jurisdictions are necessary to access the data. So if an agency wants to access it, they have to get warrants from different countries.

That's a neat trick, but not as neat as Signal's "sure, here's all the data we have - the time and ip address of their last use."

(I'm sure a bunch of the "better UX, UI, and features" people like in Telegram rely on them storing more data on their servers, so that comes down to a privacy/convenience tradeoff, which as others have pointed out almost always comes down on the convenience side for 99.99% of people...)

[7v3x3n3sem9vv]

Close! Signal only keeps the date a number registered and the last day it contacted their servers.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-sign...