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Kylie Robison

Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law

Signal president Meredith Whittaker, on stage at Fortune Brainstorm Tech. (Credit: Steven Vargo/Fortune)

Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted chat service Signal, doubled down on her criticism of proposed British online safety legislation, calling the government’s plan to require a special back door to access encrypted messages “mathematically impossible” and vowing to exit the U.K. market if it becomes law.

“They would order us to implement it. We would not,” Whittaker said at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Deer Valley, Utah, this week.

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