Signal reaffirms it will leave European market rather than agree to help governments surveil users
Posted on AllSides June 2nd, 2024
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Signal, which makes a popular private messaging service, reaffirmed that it will not comply with demands to compromise user privacy in Europe. France has reportedly revived a stalled EU surveillance plan with some bizarre bureacrat-brain compromise ("agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share & receive pictures,videos and links") that could only be possible if there were no end-to-end encryption in the first place, i.e. "upload scanning." "Signal strongly opposes this proposal," Signal president Meredith Whittaker wrote on social media. "Let there be no doubt: we...