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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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[-] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

The public safety minister is a fucking nimwit, like a lot of the other Liberal cabinet ministers. Only a few of them seem to be actually competent at their jobs

[-] tumblechinchilla@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Agreed. He has no idea the repercussions this will have. These companies cant even keep operational data safe. What chance do these year long surveillance records have ?

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

That's to be expected, they are politicians. Their 'career' is made entirely of telling people not to do the things that they do until they can buy enough boats and cottages to retire.