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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 Immerman on Friday November 08 2019, @02:19AM
How about the federal government doesn't meddle in state affairs except in manners the states have explicitly agreed to, within the constitution? No tying of federal spending to state enforcement - either you spend or you don't - you don't get to use tax-payer's dollars to bribe state governments into doing things you have no legal authority to force them to.