Signal’s Whittaker threatens UK exit amid phone-screening plan

Bloomberg: Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, has threatened to pull the app from the UK over the government’s approach to tech regulation.

The UK government plans to compel companies to prevent children from accessing or taking nude images on mobile devices through content-screening and age verification.

Whittaker characterized the government’s plan as “very dangerous mass surveillance” and suggested it could be used to limit speech…

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