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Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill (techcrunch.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My one wonder is, what would banks use to securely provide access to their customers online? What about online stores for local small, medium, and large businesses? Or is this going to knly target messaging and social networks?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My one wonder is, what would banks use to securely provide access to their customers online?

Considering that it would be illegal for banks to securely provide access to their customers online the answer is simple: they wouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I see, so this is a blanket ban then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Given that the UK's tech industry is strongly tied to Fintech, and without it utterly crumbles into becoming cheap support for the US, I hope there is some serious clapback from the likes of Monzo, Starling, and co.