Belgium wants to ban signal | LTE Forum Austria

A new legislative proposal in Belgium is apparently intended to ban messengers such as Signal: services are to be forced to collect data.

Last week, the Belgian government released a new bill effectively banning messengers like Signal. In this more than 800-page long text, among other things, the Belgian version of data retention is to be reintroduced. However, the proposed law speaks of “specific” situations in which all data from the population should be collected.

These include, for example: a terrorist attack that happens close to the border and the suspects are still at large. Or storage related to a specific location that may be relevant to terrorism. However, these broad assumptions make it more than likely that a large part of the Belgian population was the victim of such a measure.

https://edri.org/our-work/belgium-wants-to-ban-signal-a-harbinger-of-european-policy-to-come/

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