The Swedish government is looking to pass a law allowing access to WhatsApp and Signal history!
According to Swedenherald, the Swedish government plans to pass a bill that would require WhatsApp and Signal messengers to store users’ messages and provide them to the country’s security agencies!
Meredith Whitaker, CEO of the Signal Foundation, pointed out that the adoption of such a law would require the messenger to create a “backdoor” (malicious code that bypasses security restrictions for unauthorized access to the system), and said: “If we were to create a security breach as Sweden demands, our entire network would be at risk. As a result, we will not do this and we will leave Sweden.”
The aim of the bill, which may be passed by next year, is to give police and security services access to message history in order to prosecute suspects and criminals.