- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- europe@feddit.org
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- europe@feddit.org
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.
Exactly. Introducing vulnerabilities to everyone means that foreign powers will be able to use it to spy on EU citizens as well. Fucking bananas.
Maybe that’s the goal. Overall you don’t know who is lobbying the idea. You only see the press information.