You don’t have to be “pretty sure”, you can just read their law enforcement policies here.
They’re not, nor have they ever been, a group of folk trying to hide from governments/LE: they’re a legal company headquartered in the UK, and are bound by its laws.
Having said that, they’re also historically against the UK Government’s attempts at instilling things like encryption backdoors.
If you’re still paranoid, host your own server; you can still use Element (the client hosted at Element.io) to access it.
You don’t have to be “pretty sure”, you can just read their law enforcement policies here.
They’re not, nor have they ever been, a group of folk trying to hide from governments/LE: they’re a legal company headquartered in the UK, and are bound by its laws.
Having said that, they’re also historically against the UK Government’s attempts at instilling things like encryption backdoors.
If you’re still paranoid, host your own server; you can still use Element (the client hosted at Element.io) to access it.