Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill | TechCrunch
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Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, the organization that maintains the Signal messaging app, spoke about the U.K.'s controversial new privacy bill at TC Disrupt 2023.

Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill::Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, the organization that maintains the Signal messaging app, spoke about the U.K.'s controversial new privacy bill at TC Disrupt 2023.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    It could get really interesting. Delisting from the app store would probably cover 90% of users.

    People could still sideload, or use fdroid or VPNs.

    If the UK got aggressive with internet filtering and blocked signals endpoints, signal proxies exist. But they would be slower for day-to-day use. Just like signal does for Iran.

    We might see a resurgence of domain front running, which I believe cloudflare and AWS had harsh words for signal when they used it before. But if it’s the only option.

    The internet will find a way to route basically. I have full faith in that