Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>Element users are asking for protection against government <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> busting<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DoD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoD</span></a>, and French government among its customer base<br>Element told The Register: "Our <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Fortune100" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fortune100</span></a> customers have started to ask us to put clauses in our contracts which assert that we will never put <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> government's Online Safety Bill (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OSB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSB</span></a>) scanning systems in our software in order to protect their <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>." <br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/element_spy_clause_protection/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2023/10/24/ele</span><span class="invisible">ment_spy_clause_protection/</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a></p>