‘You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop’: Signal boss hits out at government encryption-busting moves.
A ‘legitimate grievance’ with big tech firms is being used by police as a pretext to undermine privacy, Meredith Whittaker says.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws
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