Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave U.K. if forced by privacy bill

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit Signal messaging app, reaffirmed that Signal would leave the U.K. if the country’s recently-passed Online Safety Bill forced Signal to build “backdoors” into its end-to-end encryption. “We would leave the U.K. or any jurisdiction if it came […]

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