Signal app boss threatens to withdraw from Europe
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The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.
  • InnerScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I hope more follow, would be funny if “all chat apps have to include a back door” leads to “there are no official chat apps”

  • earthworm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Signal CEO Whittaker said that in the worst case scenario, they would work with partners and the community to see if they could find ways to circumvent these rules. Signal also did this when the app was blocked in Russia or Iran. “But ultimately, we would leave the market before we had to comply with dangerous laws like these.”

    This is why we need the ability to sideload apps.

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      That means nothing when the servers stop taking EU traffic. I get your point, but the real solution here is putting a bullet (double tap) in Chat Control, once and for all.

      • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        putting a bullet (double tap) in Chat Control,

        Yes, please.

        once and for all.

        LOL, no. They’ll come back again with some other bullshit to Save the Children!™, it’s a never-ending whack-a-mole.

        • mangaskahn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          And they only have to win once, we have to fight and win every time they introduce a new variant. Its exhausting.

    • jali67@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Why are so many European countries doing this? Why the sudden push for chat control and internet restriction laws?

      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        It’s understandable from law enforcement perspective that it’s important to snoop on actual criminal communications. The EU has pretty reasonable measures and good at cracking down on continental-wide criminal activities. However, can we trust authorities that they won’t over reach with the chat control and violate privacy and freedom of speech? Like, come on, nothing good ever came from spying on communications. Catching criminals and/or terrorists is a convenient excuse to spy on dissidents.

        We’ve seen it happen in America with the PATRIOT Act. People dismissed the opposition to it with “nothing to hide” thought terminating cliche, or accuse you of pedophile or terrorist for not wanting spying on communications. Then twenty years later, Americans have a fascist government who allowed a corporate asshole to steal information from the federal government. And those information will be used for surveillance capitalism. The same will happen to us in the EU if we don’t push back hard on this Orwellian desires of politicians.