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Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users (www.iphoneincanada.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by 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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[–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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
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