Dark day for online privacy in the UK.

  • elouboub@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    However Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, said that they were “more optimistic than we were when we began engaging with the UK government”.

    So they aren’t leaving the UK? I’m confused…

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      1 year ago

      They threatened to leave and the UK Gov called these companies bluff. They won’t leave.

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        1 year ago

        WhatsApp certainly won’t, they own the UK chat app market and it’s not like they genuinely give a shit about privacy.

        The others - remains to be seen.