@mattround same with any #Services and #Companies having an office in the #USA or being registered there or having a U.S. owner.

• #CloudAct will come after @signalapp and just like with "logless VPNs" [web.archive.org] I guarantee you @Mer__edith personally will rather implement #Givware #Backdoors (if they weren't there "for #compliance" re: "#LawfulInterception" and "#Sanctions" already), before spending a single day in jail!

Migrate to #XMPP+#OMEMO right now!

@zdl @evacide that any the fact that @signalapp is incorportated in the #USA, making them susceptible to #GDPR & #BDSG-incompatible #cyberfacist bs like #CloudAct.

• If #Signal cared, they'd completely #OpenSource #backend and #frontend as well as #decentralize and refuse to collect any #PII (like #PhoneNumers) at all!

Remember: #KYC IS THE ILLICIT ACTIVITY when it comes to #Communication!

• To me Signal has a stench like #CryptoAG (aka. #MINERVA / #RUBIKON), #EncroChat and espechally #ANØM (aka. #OperationIronside / #OperationTrøjanShield)...

Compare that to @monocles / #monoclesChat which don't demand any PII or KYC and allow people to pay for their services with #Monero and #CashByMail besides #SEPA #WireTransfer, #Stripe & #PayPal whilst supporting both decentralization (#XMPP is not a #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider solution!), implementing real #SelfCustody (#OMEMO, #OTR & #PGP is supported out of the box) for all the keys, and proper #Anonymitiy (using @torproject / #Tor & @guardianproject #Orbot for #privacy), so in case they ever get a duely sumitted warrant by a court they'd have to comply with, they'll most likely have no data whatsoever on clients that could allow identification.

• And that is a good thing, because whilst very unlikely, one cannot exclude the non-zero chance of i.e. #MLAT|s being filed with knowingly false information by 3rd countries.

Also having no PII is a matter of reducing #liability in the sense of #DataProtection: All data requested and by #monocles is the bare minimum mandated for #accounting (i.e. only linking a payment like a #TxID / Transaction-ID to an account and then adding up validity/activation period).

• And since running a #Service costs money, the low #subscription to their #Services makes them independent from #ads, #crawling / #espionage against #customers and depending on #grants and #donations to keep the lights on, making it a #sustainable #business...