“If there was a choice between staying in the country or undermining the strong privacy promises we make to the people who trust us, we would definitely leave any country,” Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker told Ars Technica. “England is no exception.”
Under one of the provisions of the Internet Security Bill, service providers are prohibited from publishing a document that is “encrypted so Ofcom cannot understand” or encrypted so that Ofcom cannot understand the information it contains.
The bill’s provisions aim for end-to-end encryption (only the sender and receiver of the message can access the human-readable form of the content). End-to-end encryption is the main advantage of Signal. By the way, he owns Telegram.
Source: Ferra
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