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Crackdown on open source E2EE apps in India (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by Ritsu4Life@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Is it just me, or the government of India is cracking down of all end to end encryption apps like signal and element.

Cause I guy who works for the police came to my house and asked whether I use signal and element

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[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's true Indian government has banned Element and other Apps and forced Signal, WhatsApp and other such apps to have a local representative so that they can arrest someone and force their will.

Wait what! When did this happen. I live in India and just saw the element app on the play store.

They started going through chats on traffic stops, but there are ways to avoid that also

I have also yet to see this but then again this seems like something the conservative (read authoritarian) government could do