Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

The article reports that Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker says the company will leave countries that require encrypted messaging backdoors, citing Sweden’s consideration of laws to mandate access to E2EE content and referencing the UK’s Online Safety Bill and Apple’s disabling of Advanced Data Protection for UK users. It outlines proposals to force encrypted platforms to retain and provide chat data, the technical incompatibility with true E2EE, and broader international tensions, including differing positions between CISA and the FBI on managed encryption.