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It's not a company it's a nonprofit foundation. And they've been audited many times by independent auditors.
Sorry but both points are irrelevant, nonprofit foundations can still be forced to turn over user information. That is part of following the law so nothing that would need to be hidden to auditors, unless you were talking about encryption audits which is completely besides the point
What data is there for Signal to turn over? Can you prove that they're keeping messages or logs on their servers that have 'disappeared' from all the associated devices?
the irrededeemable fact that you are using it, which matters because the government now just targets all the signal users. they can't read your messages, so they are applying guilt by association.
Your entire social network graphs, and timestamped message history.
What do you think an independent autit does?
The audits determined they don't have any user information to provide. You can see this in previous government requests where the only thing provided was a timestamp of last connection to the network.