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Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.