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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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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

I can see this happening with other companies, but for signal

they have a consistent track record of loudly fighting against similar laws and threatening to pull out of markets if the law is passed
the client app is open source and so they can't make any secret deals

[-] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I agree I can’t see signal doing it.

I messed up and commented in the wrong post. My original comment was really directed at WindScribe on another post where they apparently followed suit with signal. I have had dealings with them in the past and am happily not a customer anymore.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The server is also open source. (No guarantees the actual server is running that codebase, as is always the case with servers, but the codebase is out there)