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Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 203 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"While indiscriminate backdoors might be cheaper for the State than alternative investigative measures, they were expensive for society at large on account of the security risks they produced," EISI told the ECHR.

It's great when someone with some sway actually gets it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

EU institutions are pretty great, but sooner or later they're going to lose the fight against the technofascist nightmare that's constantly getting pushed on us

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Luckily this is not an EU institution, this is an international treaty above the EU. For example, Azerbaijan is a signatory.

Point is, you can't easily get it through EU legislation to overturn this, as it would need to cross the ECHR, which it won't do.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can’t wait to see the brexiteers’ faces when they realise Britain is still a signatory.

[–] cashews_best_nut 12 points 9 months ago

Oh they're still trying to get out of the ECHR so they can deport people to Rwanda.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Ah duh, I guess I mixed up the ECJ and ECHR and the "EU court" in the headline didn't help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

For example, Azerbaijan is a signatory.

And doesn't really care, because there's no punishment for, say, being a member of something with "human rights" in the name and Azerbaijan simultaneously.

They even occasionally pay fines for torturing someone to death or things like that. Those fines are not that big.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stop this fucking doomerism and defeatism

[–] Squizzy 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's the attitude 💪💪