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		kyledrake on Oct 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Subpoenas and Gag Orders Show Government Overreach... As I've mentioned before, one way to fight these on a budget is to throw away data. There are no mandatory data retention laws in the US https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-data-retention/us It looks like Signal has more or less applied this policy to their implementation. I can attest to how abused gag orders are and am happy that Microsoft is trying to do something about it.

fweespeech on Oct 5, 2016 [–]

The risk with that is they can likely instruct you to retain and/or provide them with access needed to retain such records.

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