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Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Basically, but what you forget is that Signal is also the standard for every Politician for their group chats because it's secure, so the idea that they might lose their secure, leak-free* form of communication should worry MEPs and other politicians into taking action. Will it? I don't know, politicians are very stupid when it comes to tech it seems.
* Baring screenshots
Screenshots, or just adding a journalist to the group chat.
There's an explicit clause that exempts politicians from the ban. They get privacy because they need it, but nobody else does.
That's completely backwards. The the extent we give people authority, they must also accept monitoring, so we know they aren't abusing that authority.
where are the companys lobbying against this btw?? i mean it is their data they will be leaked aswell
If they can lobby they'll just lobby to get all their competitors' data after it passes.