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Official statement from @Mer__edith: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

Now in beta on Android & Desktop, coming soon to iOS:

Save custom nicknames & notes for anyone you’re chatting with on Signal, even if they aren’t in your phone’s contacts. Useful for adding missing letters in a lazy friend’s profile name or a reminder about where you met.

Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features 🎇

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

Introducing usernames and phone number privacy on Signal!

We’re making it possible for people to connect with each other without having to share phone numbers. Now launching to beta users, available for everyone soon.

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames

Messengers only matter if people use them. So, thank you for your support, for telling your friends, for getting your group chats on Signal, and for supporting our work with donations.

It’s an honor to build Signal for you. We literally could not do it without you.

We are touched by and grateful for every donation, including the occasional envelope of cash.

We’ve still got a few shirts and totes left in stock for you and your friends!

(We’ll restock in the new year, too, in case we’re out of your size)

http://shop.signal.org

[Tech] workers, if your job offers a matching program for charitable giving, you can use their money to support something that matters to you. If that something is Signal, our tax ID number is 82-4506840.

New long-sleeve shirts and tote bags fresh from the Signal test kitchen!

Shirts are available in S - 3XL in Natural & Black.
Totes are available in Black.

https://signal.org/blog/trend-report-use-signal/

Dec 13
12pm EST
http://shop.signal.org

PSA: We've received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you're talking to. 1/

You can donate to Signal on behalf of a friend. You support Signal & they can choose to display a badge on their profile.

Kill two birds with one stone or feed two birds with one seed depending on your tolerance for metaphorical bloodlust.

Settings > Donate > Donate for a Friend

Support Signal by going to signal.org/donate. You can give credit card donations, stock, money from a charitable giving account or donor advised fund (DAF), or cryptocurrency. If you provide an email address when you give (optional!), you’ll receive a tax receipt.

We also happily accept cash and checks if you want your support to be low tech.

We have no investors, no advertisers, nobody breathing down our necks demanding that we compromise on privacy for the sake of the bottom line. Signal is supported by you and your donations.

There are many ways to support Signal. You can donate in the app by going to Settings > Donate.

When you do, you’ll get a badge to display on your profile to show your support. You can also donate for a friend so they can display a badge on their profile.

We also believe it is imperative to build alternatives to the current tech ecosystem & its reliance on surveillance. And building these alternatives requires understanding the political economy of the industry, so we don’t mistake an elegant idea for a realistic possibility.

If you rely on Signal, if you believe in what we’re doing, or if you want to support tech done differently, please donate to support our work.

https://signal.org/donate/

By being transparent about Signal, we also hope to shed light on the industry. We show how expensive the development of high- availability consumer tech is & by implication the massive profitability of the surveillance business model underwriting most tech.

We’re doing this to provide transparency into Signal, and to make clear why our choice of nonprofit status isn’t just nice to have, but a fundamental safeguard against the pressures of a profitable business model that fundamentally contradicts our stance on privacy.

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Check out some recent improvements in our New Features Roll Call:

Contact list too big? Remove a contact.

Embarrassing typo? Edit message.

Need to add some extra emphasis? Text formatting.

https://signal.org/blog/new-features-fall-2023/

@Mer__edith 's intended comments for the EDPS seminar on EU’s CSAM regulations:

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/EDPS_Remarks.pdf