Transparency report · 2021 H1

January to June 2021

15 legal requests to Frothly about Glossia. User data disclosed: none.

Requests by type

Requests to Frothly by type, January to June 2021
TypeReceived
Demands for user dataSubpoenas, court orders and warrants seeking information about a person who uses Glossia.12
Emergency requestsRequests made without legal process where someone’s life or safety was said to be at risk.1
Requests about relaysDemands for logs, traffic or access to a relay that Frothly runs.1
Requests to remove or block contentGlossia carries only encrypted messages, so there is nothing for us to remove.1
Demands to weaken GlossiaDemands to add a way to read messages, or to change the software to help someone do so.0
Total15

Where requests came from

Requests to Frothly by region of origin, January to June 2021
RegionRequests
North America5
Europe4
Latin America and the Caribbean2
Africa1
Middle East and Central Asia1
South and Southeast Asia1
Oceania1

We report regions rather than countries where a single request could identify the person it concerned.

What we disclosed

No user data. We do not have messages, contact lists, account details, phone numbers or logs of who connected to which relay, so there was nothing to disclose.

In 1 case we confirmed information that is already public: that a relay is listed in the directory, and which organization runs it.

Notes

A partner operator in South America was ordered to hand over the server running its relay. It complied, as it was required to, and notified us the same day. The relay held no readable messages and no logs, and its keys had been revoked before the server left the building.