I know i guess i wanna support so they have motivation to go forward. But yes you are absolutely right.
Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 months agoNever idolise. Courts simply apply the laws, and good laws were likely written by inspired people and approved in a good political climate. These two conditions are not static.
THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 4 months ago
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 months ago
We are always on the brink of ruining everything nice that we have been slowly building.
You can read here about the plans of the European Commission to enable service operators to mass scan all the users’ private messages in search of illegal materials.
The Commission is the same super-government body that signed privacy-oriented things like the General Data Protection Regulation.
THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 4 months ago
Yeah i kinda did hear about it and was suprised. But figures can’t have anything nice nowadays anyway
moitoi@feddit.de 4 months ago
In this case, the title is misleading. It’s not the ECJ, it’s the ECHR. The ECHR isn’t part of the EU even if the EU and the EU members recognize it.
The ECHR rules according to the ECHR and not the EU regulations. The court can overturn EU regulation when violating the Human Rights.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 months ago
I didn’t open the article before, and you are right. The author of the article lives in Chicago; I think that Ars has no European writer.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well, European Union member states have as a criteria of membership to also be members of the European Convention of Human Rights (which is the one the ECHR rules on), but that’s about it.