is a mostly unencrypted … of course it's going to cooperate if local law enforcement comes knocking on their door with a warrant I don’t see how these are conn

is a mostly unencrypted … of course it's going to cooperate if local law enforcement comes knocking on their door with a warrant I don’t see how these are connected. All messengers will hand over all metadata they have to comply. The chatgroups in focus themselves are mostly public groups, you don’t have to play james bond to read what’s there. LEAs are arriving to the scene from that vector, not the other way round. “The NGO CeMAS monitors 3,000 German-language channels & groups for "disinformation, antisemitism, and right-wing extremism." - it’s literally in the tweet, man. Metadata logging is unrelated to encryption, not sure what’s the sensation is without comparing what messengers will actually have on hands in case of a warrant, minus publicly accessible info.