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European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal (www.theregister.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal::Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just the fact that they tried is a huge warning sign to me. This is the future they think we should live in.

[–] Fungah 4 points 8 months ago

And nobody gives a shit :(

Foucault was right. Civilization is just a fucked up sadomasochistic relationship. People want to be oppressed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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).