"The initial project was created inside Amdocs...."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
You should take a closer look at what they do:
In over 90 countries with more than 26,000 employees, they prepare mobile phone bills for more than half of the world's population and provide services for the mobile phone industry!
Mobile phone companies send them the connection data and Amdocs apparently only creates the bill.
This means that since the 1980s they have known who has been in contact with whom, how often, for how long and at what time!
So you can easily say that Amdocs is the world's first big metadata company. Even the USA went too far and in 1999 they tried to investigate the company and shut it down!
So we shouldn't be surprised if they now want to continue this metadata collection “passion” with messengers.
Amdocs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs
element collects MetaData
The Matrix Client Element even openly admits that they use metadata to profile users!
This is stated in their (non-)data protection declaration (under 2.2):
“... but we might profile metadata ...”
https://element.io/privacy
Sounds so harmless: “... but we might profile metadata....” = No, they certainly do.
Apparently “free” is NEVER free!
A quick reminder:
“Metadata tells you absolutely everything about a person's life. If you have enough metadata, you don't really need the content.”
NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-based-metadata/
Janneke
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