No, we don't believe it does. From the very start, we have anticipated and prepared for regulatory hostility. Being built in Australia, one of the Five-Eyes intelligence alliance countries, meant accepting that hostile regulation was likely to come. But there’s a pretty simple reason as to why we chose to build here anyway: running from legislators isn’t a solution.
Rather than set up shop in Switzerland and hope that the regulatory environment never changes, we focused on developing technology that could be resistant to surveillance by governments (and everyone else too).
Decentralisation and metadata minimisation is the core of that ideal. The Session team is based in Australia, but Session has infrastructure all around the world. Over 1,500 community-operated servers are currently routing Session messages for over 200,000 users, and the minimal amount of data that flows through them are inaccessible to the Session Team — we can’t be compelled to hand over information that we don’t have.