[defraudbah]

people often confuse privacy with anonymity, like in this article.

the question was if signal is secure and private, and the answer is about anonymity

is it secure and private - it is, is it anonymous - it's not, or at least, to some degree

[jijijijij]

Hm. I think, you are confusing general privacy with confidentiality. Observing who I am talking to definitely falls into the privacy domain.

Eg. you are talking to an HIV medical specialist. This inherently has privacy implications, if observable. Likewise, you wouldn't say DNS has no privacy implications.

Anonymity rather means, you don't/can't know who exactly you are talking to.

[dist-epoch]

Some definitions of "private" also include "not knowing who I talk to".

[fmajid]

"We kill people based on metadata"

General Michael Hayden, Director, NSA