Basically title. Looks like wire is now heavily being targeted towards corporates. In a corporate environment you don’t need too much privacy, so I was wondering…
Is wire messenger private in 2023?
Where does it stands in the current stack among WhatsApp, signal, simplex etc…?
Exactly how much data is being collected?
As far as I can tell, wire is fine regarding privacy. All chat content and metadata is end-to-end encrypted. I am not aware of any additional, unnecessary data collection. You can check their privacy policy at https://start.wire.com/privacy-policy
The main reason for concern comes from the wierd, intransparent move of their holdings company to the US in 2019 (see https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/messaging-app-wire-confirms-8-2m-raise-responds-to-privacy-concerns-after-moving-holding-company-to-the-us/ for details)
In 2020 the holdings company moved back to europe and is now located in Germany.
For a comparison with other messengers see https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html
