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[SWE] Swedish government wants a back door in Signal (www.svt.se)

submitted 2 months ago by Wolfie@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Swedish government wants a back door in signal for police and 'Säpo' (Swedish federation that checks for spies)

Let's say that this becomes a law and Signal decides to withdraw from Sweden as they clearly state that they won't implement a back door; would a citizen within the country still be able to use and access Signals services? Assuming that google play services probably would remove the Signal app within Sweden (which I also don't use)

I just want the government to go f*ck themselves, y'know?

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[-] Libb@jlai.lu 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How does this even make sense? The criminals would just move to another platform like SimpleX or use a VPN.

Next move (and not just from Sweden): make the use of a VPN (and any fully encrypted service) illegal for the average citizen—who needs a backdoor when the law makes it a crime to simply use full E2EE? Let those be used with trust by the army, the press, organizations and people like that just not by common people that should have no privacy at all.

Politician incompetency and dishonesty will finish to ruin what little of Europe remains and what the word democracy was supposed to mean (which is not to consider your citizen like clueless children that can't understand shit and that can't be trusted).

But in exchange of ruining that they will get some more power and/or money, so that's fine I suppose.

this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025

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