Jean-luc Peak-hard

Your profile, like everything else on Signal, is also end-to-end encrypted. Your name and profile picture do get shared with whoever you chat with, groups or individuals. If you don’t want your name and profile picture shared with randos, either don’t set them or don’t chat with randos.

Signal defaults to hiding your phone number since the release of user names: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

Little known fact, the “J” stands for Jackass

For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo