cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60408809
Additionally, the Commission envisions expanding Europol’s role, effectively transforming it into a European equivalent of the FBI, with enhanced operational capabilities.
Granting Europol the ability to access encrypted data can only mean one thing: Brussels is proposing some form of government-mandated backdoor for communication platforms protected by end-to-end encryption.
Every year we have summer
Every year we have a bunch of dip shits believing encryption isn’t necessary
Every year we have a bunch of dumb idiots proposing that it is very doable to build a secure backdoor into encryption
Every year…
We need to make encryption a constitutional human right in the entirety of Europe