Security & Trust FAQ

How we protect your identity, listings, and meetups.

Direct answers to the questions diaspora users ask before signing up. No marketing fog: just what we store, what we don't, and where our protection ends.

You sign in with your existing Googleaccount via OAuth, and that's the only sign-in method. Linking LinkedInis an optional post-signup step (rolling out) that adds a verification badge; it's never a way to log in. We never ask for government IDs, photos of IDs, SSNs, immigration documents, or scans of any official paperwork.

What we store:

  • Display name + email (from your Google account)
  • Profile photo (the one you already use on Google)
  • A hashed account identifier we use to match listings to you

What we never store:

  • Passwords (Google handles authentication)
  • ID numbers, SSNs, immigration document data
  • Biometric data or document scans

Data lives in Google Cloud Firestore (US region), encrypted at rest and in transit. You can request a full export or full deletion at any time from Account → Profile.

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