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

submitted 11 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] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seeing as the French government was going after a group of people for using Signal and other 'clandestine' behaviors, I'm with you in distrusting them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't also France behind a lawsuit in Switzerland that got Protonmail to start spying on its users?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I hadn't heard about that one but I'm not surprised.