Signal is technically unable to read your messages or listen to your calls because they are encrypted in a way that only you and the person you are communicating with can access.
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This is the core privacy protection Signal offers: unlike most messaging services, even Signal itself cannot access your communications, significantly reducing the risk of your messages being read by third parties, including in response to legal requests.
Message and call content is inaccessible to Signal by design, meaning that even if Signal receives a legal demand for your communications, it cannot produce readable content because it does not hold the decryption keys.
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"Signal cannot decrypt or otherwise access the content of your messages or calls. Signal queues end-to-end encrypted messages on its servers for delivery to devices that are temporarily offline (e.g. a phone whose battery has died). Your message history is stored on your own devices.Excerpt from Signal's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and its Stored Communications Act provisions, as well as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).
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This is the core privacy protection Signal offers: unlike most messaging services, even Signal itself cannot access your communications, significantly reducing the risk of your messages being read by third parties, including in response to legal requests.
Message and call content is inaccessible to Signal by design, meaning that even if Signal receives a legal demand for your communications, it cannot produce readable content because it does not hold the decryption keys.
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