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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 12 hours ago

Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users

www.iphoneincanada.ca

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Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users

www.iphoneincanada.ca

floofloof@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 12 hours ago
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Signal to Ottawa: We’ll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users | iPhone in Canada
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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,

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/canada/p/727265/signal-to-ottawa-we-ll-leave-canada-before-we-help-you-spy-on-users

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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    https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android AGPL

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      Lol no.

      Download the apk. It includes that AGPL and also non free blobs. Just because part of if is Foss does not make if foss

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        Nothing to laugh at here in my view. It is FOSS. The reason it isn’t on there is sort of procedural. You could easily build signal from source, but signal prefers only their builds connect to their servers. They of course can’t enforce this but fdroid is happy to do so.

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