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Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill (techcrunch.com)

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Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill::Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, the organization that maintains the Signal messaging app, spoke about the U.K.'s controversial new privacy bill at TC Disrupt 2023.

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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago

What are the governments around the world afraid of? Always so quick to go for overly invasive privacy laws. They should be afraid of the citizens, not the other war around.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 91 points 11 months ago

They are afraid of the citizens, that's why they want to be able to read all the messages.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I think they're saying that they are supposed to be (i.e., this doesn't need fixing). If they "fix" it, the people will be afraid of the government.

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