Spike is seen after arrest of telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France in august

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Im pretty sure matrix.org data has been and will be sharing data with law enforcement. Even if you use encryption, they collect loads of metadata. With smaller servers it depends on local jurisdiction i guess.

    • Derin@lemmy.beru.co
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      You don’t have to be “pretty sure”, you can just read their law enforcement policies here.

      They’re not, nor have they ever been, a group of folk trying to hide from governments/LE: they’re a legal company headquartered in the UK, and are bound by its laws.

      Having said that, they’re also historically against the UK Government’s attempts at instilling things like encryption backdoors.

      If you’re still paranoid, host your own server; you can still use Element (the client hosted at Element.io) to access it.

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      Of course they will. They only company that has actually ever refused, to my knowledge, is lavabit, and that’s because they shut down their operations entirely when the gov demanded encryption keys due to Snowden.

      The fact that such an enormous portion of users and groups are on the matrix.org server is a huge problem.