PogoWasRight.org

Menu
  • About
  • Privacy
Menu

Signal messaging app turns over minimal data in first subpoena

Posted on October 4, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

This is reassuring to those of us who use Signal to protect sources, etc. Joseph Menn reports:

Open Whisper Systems, the developer of encrypted messaging app Signal, received a subpoena earlier this year requesting user information but was only able to supply the duration of a user’s membership, according to court documents unsealed last week. An assistant attorney in the U.S. state of Virginia requested email addresses, history logs, browser cookie data and other information associated with two phone numbers as part of a grand jury probe, the redacted documents showed.

The request was made in the first half of this year, the documents showed.

Read more on Reuters.

No related posts.

Category: BusinessCourtFeatured NewsSurveillanceU.S.

Post navigation

← Unmasking of Italian writer Elena Ferrante triggers writers’ privacy row
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence – sources →

Now more than ever

Search

Contact Me

Email: info@pogowasright.org

Mastodon: Infosec.Exchange/@PogoWasRight

Signal: +1 516-776-7756

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is now blocked by Brave and AdGuard
  • Trump Administration Issues AI Action Plan and Series of AI Executive Orders
  • Indonesia asked to reassess data privacy terms in new U.S. trade deal
  • Meta Denies Tracking Menstrual Data in Flo Health Privacy Trial
  • Wikipedia seeks to shield contributors from UK law targeting online anonymity
  • British government reportedlu set to back down on secret iCloud backdoor after US pressure
  • Idaho agrees not to prosecute doctors for out-of-state abortion referrals

RSS Recent Posts on DataBreaches.net

  • BreachForums — the one that went offline in April — reappears with a new founder/owner
  • Fans React After NASCAR Confirms Ransomware Breach
  • Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack
  • Infinite Services notifying employees and patients of limited ransomware attack
  • The safe place for women to talk wasn’t so safe: hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app
©2025 PogoWasRight.org. All rights reserved.
Menu
  • About
  • Privacy