Comment on European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal
nulluser@programming.dev 4 months ago
“With this outstanding landmark judgment, the ‘client-side scanning’ surveillance on all smartphones proposed by the EU Commission in its chat control bill is clearly illegal,” said Breyer.
“It would destroy the protection of everyone instead of investigating suspects. EU governments will now have no choice but to remove the destruction of secure encryption from their position on this proposal – as well as the indiscriminate surveillance of private communications of the entire population!”
I hope he’s right, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
1984@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Just the fact that they tried is a huge warning sign to me. This is the future they think we should live in.
Fungah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And nobody gives a shit :(
Foucault was right. Civilization is just a fucked up sadomasochistic relationship. People want to be oppressed.
Fisch@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
“They” in this case isn’t the entire EU tho. There’s a lot of different politicians there and Patrick Breyer, for example, was against this from the start. That’s probably also who I’ll vote for (or the Pirate Party, which he’s a part of, I don’t know how exactly voting works for the EU).