{"id":473021,"date":"2026-02-13T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:01:07","slug":"how-to-use-signal-for-secure-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473021\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Signal for Secure Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe joke is that, \u2018If you store it, they will come,\u2019\u201d says Yael Grauer, a program manager at CR specializing in cybersecurity. \u201cMeaning, if you store customer data anywhere, then it\u2019s vulnerable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other apps with encrypted messaging often store large amounts of metadata, such as call logs and contact lists, that are not end-to-end encrypted. That data can be shared with third parties, including advertisers, developers, and data brokers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Metadata can reveal plenty about your identity and activities, including who you regularly talk to and when. It could then be used, say, by someone conducting surveillance or building a profile on you, even if they can\u2019t see the content of your messages.<\/p>\n<p>Metadata is vulnerable to hackers and subject to court orders, just like other data. But because Signal doesn\u2019t store the data in the first place, it has almost nothing to provide. On multiple occasions, Signal has been <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/bigbrother\/\" target=\"_blank\">ordered to hand over data<\/a> on its users but could provide only timestamps showing when a Signal account was created and the date of the user\u2019s last connection to Signal\u2019s servers.<\/p>\n<p>Stored data may be even more of a concern in the AI era. Rapidly developing AI tools are capable of scanning vast quantities of data quickly and identifying patterns, and those tools will continue to develop in ways we can\u2019t yet predict. By using a platform that stores little metadata, you can help safeguard against current and future uses of your data that you may not agree with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe joke is that, \u2018If you store it, they will come,\u2019\u201d says Yael Grauer, a program manager at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,192292,20241,192291,61],"class_list":["post-473021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-secure-messaging","tag-signal","tag-signal-app","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}