Signal Warns It Would Pull Out of Canada if Made to Comply With Bill C–22

Marie Woolf, the Globe and Mail: Secure messaging service Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption, is warning it would withdraw from Canada if asked to compromise its users’ privacy under Bill C-22, Ottawa’s proposed lawful access legislation. […] The bill would require “core providers” — which would later be defined through regulations — to retain metadata for up to a year. Are lawmakers capable of learning from their peers elsewhere? Do we have to do this kind of thing every year, country-by-country? ⌥ Permalink