[jazzyjackson]

Signal and any kind of Slack SaaS: US infrastructure, US law around data governance. Matrix (and Zulip, for that matter, and mattermost too) encourage self-hosting on your own infrastructure, or at least in-country, even if the upstream security patches are coming from US developers.

[nxor]

Thank you, that helps me understand it better

Oh, and as everyone has said. Only some of the developers are from the US