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,
  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    5 hours ago

    This is one of the things that bugs me.

    If you’re in Country A, with all your operations in Country A, and what you do is legal in Country A, why should you give a single fuck about Country B’s laws?

    Seems to me the appropriate answer is basically to do what The Pirate Bay did with DMCA notices- respond that your laws don’t apply to us as we have nothing to do with your country, and if your citizens use our software that’s between you and them. It’s not our job to enforce your laws on your citizens.