Exactly the same thing happened to my open source app baresip+. I got rmail from Google telling that the app contains spyware that uploads user's contact list information without asking permission. It was completely false accusation. The app does not upload anything anywhere, period. I asked for more details several times and all answers felt like coming from a robot. I then kept creating new versions of the app that fixed bugs and added some new features. After three or four such cycles, Google suddenly re-accepted the app. My guess is that there are serious bugs in their verification software.

NZ has the worst Internet coverage of any country I have ever visited (and that includes many so-called developing countries such as Indonesia). It is possible to drive the main highway for almost 400 km from Wanaka to Franz Joseph without any cell phone coverage. Of course there is no fiber either and that area was not listed on the map referred in the article. So people traveling the road need to wait beyond 2024 for an improvement! That is simply unbelievable in any developed country.

I fully support your position, but if you live in the U.S., you will become a criminal immediately when this law comes into force. In order to be effective, it must make illegal the use and distribution of encryption software that does not have a backdoor for the U.S government. Shortly after this law has become in effect in the U.S., the U.S., government will start requiring other nations to issue similar laws, which leaves you and me no place to live.

The scary thing is that this proposal will make it illegal for anyone to encrypt anything unless the person surrenders the key when asked for or unless there is a back door for the government built in. It is not just a service provider thing and but something that makes ordinary people criminals if they use pgp, ssh, zrtp, etc.