Some folks in France have been imprisoned for using Signal, TOR, and other privacy and security tools:
https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-chiffrement-des-communications-assimile-a-un-comportement-terroriste/
The suspicion is terrorism, but evidence for that doesn't seem to exist outside travel history.
rcarback / Richard Carback
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2023-06-11 00:53:53
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2023-06-11 00:53:53Event JSON
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