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These subpoenas... (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 4 days ago by unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hey all -

Just curious if anyone has seen a notice related to the news below. Reporting says hundreds sent out and that in most cases the tech companies have to notify the person and give time to contest it. So it would be good to get a clear example of these admin subpoena notices so we can all be on the lookout:

https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2675268854/

Or maybe this is some huge bullshit scare tactic.

Thank you!

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which is why I don't give anyone my phone number.

fun fact: its worse than that! its not only about your phone number. signal and almost every chat app exposes your chat partners in the system contacts database. It's handy for the contacts app to be showing the list of chat apps usable for someone you know. at the minimum your name and profile picture that you set for yourself will be there and accessible to any apps with contacts permission, and in signal (even the molly fork) if that partner has made their phone number visible, that will be saved here too. and you can't really turn it off for others.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are misinformed. Signal has your phone number and that's it. This has been demonstrated time and time again with legal documents.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

check your contacts app before stating such things. I'm not stating that signal sends your data to facebook and such, but that signal is registering info into the OS for convenience, that will also he visible to other apps with the privilege granted, including those of facebook

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Check my contacts app for what, exactly?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

sorry, I think I was wrong. signal/molly only attaches that information to a contact when it already has the phone number that they use for signal.

so unless you keep your phone number visible on signal, or you share your phone number in another way, this shouldn't be a problem.