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French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging (www.computerweekly.com)
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French local authorities are to replace WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams with open source encrypted messaging software as part of a long-term move away from software produced by big US tech companies.

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[–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

How they were able to use Whatsapp, as it is inherently GDPR incompatible?

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    • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Great in principle, but if they implement this, the French government will ensure its backdoored to fuck

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    It's not for the general public, it's for municipalities and authorities.

    How would the French government benefit from spying on three cities and one ISP that works with local authorities using Matrix? And why would that be worse than Microsoft doing it instead of them?

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