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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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[–] [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.