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Neither knowing your phone number nor the Cloud Act nor both in combination gives Signal the magical ability to “snoop” on your end-to-end encrypted chats or to circumvent Sealed Sender, if that's what you're trying to express with your PII argument. signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

Long-term secret keys and session keys are generated and stored on the end-user's device and are never sent to the server. It's called end-to-end encryption for a reason. Wiretapping doesn't change that.

Signal MessengerTechnology preview: Sealed sender for SignalIn addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users. By design, it does not store a record of your contacts, social graph, conversation list, location, user avatar, user profile name, ...