"Let’s be clear, we are not in the business of compromising on privacy, and we are not in the business of handing people who want and need Signal a compromised version of it. We are not going to do that. Are there people in South and East Asia who want to be able to talk privately, safely, and intimately outside of the gaze of corporate state surveillance? Absolutely. Do we want them to have access to Signal? Absolutely, we do. Do we want Signal to be available there? Yes. Can we magically transform the geopolitical dynamics? No, we can’t," Meredith Whittaker, president of the encrypted messaging app Signal, remarked in an interview with The Verge. Will walk away from India if need be: "We would walk. We will not hand over the keys to our encryption, we will not break the encryption. In fact, with the way we are built, we don’t have access to those keys," Whittaker replied to a question on what the platform will do if India passes a law requiring weaker encryption. "We are still available to people in India who want to use Signal. We are not going to compromise on privacy, and that is our stance. We will do everything we can to continue to be available to the people in India who want and need Signal," Whittaker added. Why does this matter: End-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal are loved by journalists, activists, and people who care about their privacy because no one who…
