Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018.
Privacy is not anonimity though. Privacy simply means that private data is not disclosed or used to parties and for purposes that the data owner doesn’t explicitly allow.
Often not collecting data is a way to ensure no misuse (and no compromise, hence security), but it’s not necessarily always the case.
privacy != anonymity != security
But in some way, privacy ≈ security. Very intertwined.
Privacy is not anonimity though. Privacy simply means that private data is not disclosed or used to parties and for purposes that the data owner doesn’t explicitly allow. Often not collecting data is a way to ensure no misuse (and no compromise, hence security), but it’s not necessarily always the case.