PieFed chez MarudEU High Level Group (established by EU commission) recommends forcing all devices in the EU to be sold with ”integrated Law Enforcement access” and sanctioning non-EU approved messaging services
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macniel"integrated law enforcement access" because by calling it by its correct name would cause concern?
"We should sanction non-approved messaging services because they are open to abuse by foreign governments." Sure. What about USA putting backdoors into things and the backdoors being used by said foreign governmemts? What a terrible argument.
Chinese Hackers Used U.S. Government-Mandated Wiretap Systems
Yes, and after the Chinese hackers used the U.S. government-mandated wiretap system, the U.S. authorities urged citizens to use encrypted apps ...
talThe HLG maintains that law enforcement authorities face increasing operational challenges when
seeking to lawfully access data digitally generated, processed or stored in a readable format. 47% of
respondents to the most recent annual survey of the SIRIUS project on Cross-Border Access To
Electronic Evidence identified the lack of data retention as the predominant challenge they faced,
and already in 2018 it was estimated that by 2019 more than 22 percent of global messaging was
estimated to be end-to-end encrypted and inaccessible to law enforcement. The HLG identified the
lack of an adequate legal framework to perform lawful interception on non-traditional
telecommunications services to also have significant consequences for law enforcement action:
more than 90% of messaging passes through such Over-The-Top (OTT) services.
I'd actually be pretty impressed if 22 percent of global messaging used end-to-end encryption in 2019. Pleased, but surprised.
Email needs PGP or X.509 certs, and I don't think that there's much use there. I don't think that any of the major social media sites have clients that use end-to-end encryption, and moreso not in 2019. SMS isn't end-to-end encrypted.
Like, most end-to-end encrypted software packages that I can think of are specifically aimed at people who have sought out end-to-end encryption, and there aren't many of those.
"Expert opinions" lol...
"We should sanction non-approved messaging services because they are open to abuse by foreign governments." Sure. What about USA putting backdoors into things and the backdoors being used by said foreign governmemts? What a terrible argument.
Chinese Hackers Used U.S. Government-Mandated Wiretap Systems
The idea of being forced to use government approved messaging services seems a bit Orwellian.
The same argument of “lawful acces to data while ensuring the rights to privacy and security” keeps popping up. I just can’t fit into my head how one can ensure my right to privacy while actively enabeling the undermining of said right. Have none of the “experts” taken Cybersecurity 101 or read just [one article detailing why it is impossible to “just let the good guys decrypt the bad guys’ encrypted data”] (https://mullvad.net/en/chatcontrol/stop-chatcontrol). Maybe I’m just missing something.
Damn, they have some shit takes. But this is suggestions from a work force. Not even a proposed bill.
This commission is just making the far-right’s panties wet. This non-sense, delaying and watering down many environmental policies. The inhuman anti-immigration stuff. It is saddening really.
And normies think EU privacy protection means something 🤡
Still does. These are nowhere near laws.