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Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users (www.iphoneincanada.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be forced to weaken the privacy protections it has built its reputation on. In an interview with The Globe and Mail

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[-] Schwim@lemmy.zip 74 points 1 week ago

It's refreshing to see this because it's so rare that there's any real pushback to the global race of countries attempting to strip their citizens of any remaining scrap of privacy.

[-] tumblechinchilla@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

Yup. Seems to be a global fad of saying fuck privacy you need a face scan to communicate. Fuck them and fuck that.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago

Which means we probably need to dig deeper because the reason will either be Canada is not paying enough or some other country compromised signal already and is refusing to allow Canada to also do it