Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47296462

For now, your encrypted messages have a lock on them.

Only you, and the person you’re talking to, hold the key. Not the app. Not the company. Not the government. You probably don’t think about it. That’s the whole point — it just works.

Until, possibly, the end of this summer. Every messaging app in Canada would be required to build a second key.

With Bill C-22, the government would hold the copy. The lock you trust would no longer be a lock only you can open. It would be a lock the locksmith was ordered to duplicate.

Find and email your MP here to voice your opinion.

https://dontsurveil.me/c22/mp/

  • NGC2346@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    4 days ago

    I think it is time for me to explore whether i can create a messaging platform that relies on i2p, nothing they could do against this.

    • racoon@lemmy.ml
      7·
      4 days ago

      Why not just a keyboard app that encrypted and decrypted messages, regardless of the platform? Select text and tap on a pop up “decrypt”.

      In the keyboard, select the keys and Type with the encrypting keyboard. The message is then encrypted so you can send it through whatever medium you want.

      Sadly, juicy metadata is more important than message content, acc. to Snowden

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      4 days ago

      Simplex, Quiet, Keet, & Sessions are some different apps that I have come across.

      Also Nextcloud chat is something that you could self-host. Though if this bill does pass I guess hosting this would make you a criminal as soon as it does.