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France bans ministers from WhatsApp, Signal; demands French alternatives. (www.politico.eu)

submitted 9 months ago by pylapp to c/privacy

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After the Tchap project based on Matrix, the French Prime Minister asks anyone in the gouvernement to use Olvid, the only app validated by the ANSSI, with metadata encryption and no centralised architecture nor contacts discovery. But only the front-ends are open source, not the back-end.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-requires-ministers-to-swap-whatsapp-signal-for-french-alternatives/

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, politicians making technical decisions about technology they won't understand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

To be fair, their job is not to 100% understand the technology, but to govern (they are politicians, not IT or SysAdmins)...and listen to subject matter experts as they make those decisions.