Messaging app ‘Signal’ foils first federal effort to surveil users

By Rudy Takala

Published October 4, 2016 7:41pm ET

Messaging app ‘Signal’ foils first federal effort to surveil users — "We've designed the Signal service to minimize the data we retain about Signal users, so the only information we can produce in response to a request like this is the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user's connectivity to the Signal service," the company said.

The first attempt by the federal government to gather information about users of a top messaging application was foiled, the company said on Tuesday, because the company is purposefully unable to access that data.

The Obama administration sought information from the company, Open Whisper Systems, in connection with an FBI criminal investigation.

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