SILNTData privacy
Private messages still need delivery information.
Here is what SILNT and other services can see, even when they cannot read your conversations.
SILNT delivery service
- What they can see
- When messages are sent, encrypted message sizes and delivery identifiers. Public identity keys can be linked to those identifiers, even without an @handle. Anyone who knows a delivery identifier can look up its public identity key. Notification tokens link a device to its delivery identifier. The service also sees upload records and group invitation activity, including who requests to join and who hosts the invitation. Temporary IP counters last up to 24 hours.
- Privacy and limits
- Message text, photos, voice notes, contact names and payment details inside a conversation. Delivery records and timing can still reveal connections between people.
File storage
- What they can see
- Encrypted file sizes, access times and which delivery identifier uploaded a file.
- Privacy and limits
- File contents and which conversation a file belongs to. Access times and temporary IP information can still reveal activity.
Apple iCloud backups
- What they can see
- That a backup exists, its encrypted size and when it syncs.
- Privacy and limits
- The messages, contacts and payment history inside a SILNT backup. Opening it requires your recovery phrase.
Apple notifications
- What they can see
- Notification timing and the device token used to reach your phone.
- Privacy and limits
- Message text, sender names and payment amounts in the push notification.
Breez, Spark and payment network providers
- What they can see
- Payment destinations, amounts, timing, wallet or network identifiers and settlement records. Their own policies govern retention and other uses of these records.
- Privacy and limits
- SILNT does not send chat contents or contact names to these providers. Payment privacy has different limits from message privacy.
Breez wallet synchronization
- What they can see
- Encrypted wallet records, record identifiers, revisions and request timing.
- Privacy and limits
- Record contents are encrypted on your device. Payment processing separately exposes the information needed to settle payments.
SideSwap
- What they can see
- The destination address, amount and wallet coins when you enable paying a USDt network fee in USDt and have no bitcoin for the fee.
- Privacy and limits
- SILNT does not send your conversations to SideSwap. This optional fee service is not contacted for the default USDt payment path.
MoonPay, if you choose to buy
- What they can see
- Contact details, identity documents and selfies required for verification, card or bank payment details, purchase records and IP address.
- Privacy and limits
- SILNT does not send your recovery phrase or conversations to MoonPay and cannot read the fields you enter in its checkout. MoonPay and its providers process those fields under their own policies. Buying through MoonPay involves identity checks and is not anonymous.
People in your chat
- What they can see
- Messages and files shared with them. They may save or share copies.
- Privacy and limits
- Other conversations they have not joined. Removing someone from a group stops access to new messages, but does not remove earlier copies or prevent others sharing with them.
Encryption does not hide every sign of activity. Timing can reveal patterns, a compromised device can expose its contents, and recipients can share what you send them.
Pro includes an optional setting to make activity patterns harder to read while the app is open. It pauses in the background and in Low Power Mode. It does not cover every action or guarantee anonymity.