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Sports teams are using Signal to duck deflategate-like scandals
Facebook isn't the only company struggling over the prospect of end-to-end encryption in messaging apps, as a report from Yahoo Sports cites examples from "every level of sport" turning to encrypted messaging. While Whatsapp and iMessage provide encrypted communications, increasingly the app of choice is turning out to be Signal, which not only protects their message from MITM spying, but can also auto-delete them based on rules.
If you're a college coach or athletic director and someone makes a FOIA request, that could reduce the amount of information they get about contacts with recruits and boosters. In the NFL, investigators pursuing the "deflategate" incident famously requested access to Tom Brady's texts, but the quarterback destroyed his phone prior to meeting them -- an act cited in the league's decision to hand down a four game suspension.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday November 07 2019, @08:41PM
There are a lot of nations that manage to have both local governments with local laws and a less ambiguous version of federal supremacy.
I'd definitely want to avoid a China situation where local governments have to ask the national government to please write a law for a problem they're having. But something like Swiss Cantons or Japanese prefectures isn't a dystopian hell.