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Signal to leave Sweden if forced to create message backdoors

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 26, 2025
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Privacy-focused messaging app Signal will pull out of Sweden if the government forces it to store users' private messages, CEO Meredith Whittaker told SVT News. The proposed legislation would require messaging apps to create "backdoors" allowing law enforcement to access encrypted communications.

The bill, which could pass next year, aims to give Swedish…

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