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'Fighting crime blindfolded': Europe is coming after encryption

by c420 on 4/24/25, 12:26 PM with 6 comments

• by rixthefox on 4/24/25, 3:30 PM

  Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. - Edward Snowden

• by mathw on 4/24/25, 2:20 PM

  It's all rather pointless. The technology exists, therefore criminals will use it. Banning it for everyone else doesn't really achieve anything.

• by nickslaughter02 on 4/24/25, 12:54 PM

  > France has put forward an anti-drug trafficking law that critics say would ban encryption. The Nordic countries have taken the fight to tech companies. Spain said it wants to ban encryption. And the U.K. government has now entered a legal battle with Apple over an apparent attempt to secretly spy on encrypted data.

  > Denmark will soon take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, giving it an influential role at a time when EU countries are debating the bloc’s child sexual abuse material bill (CSAM). That draft legislation could impose an obligation on all messaging platforms to conduct blanket scans on their content to root out child abuse images — even if they're end-to-end encrypted and thus technically out of reach of the platforms themselves.

  The land of the free.

• by GuestFAUniverse on 4/24/25, 3:13 PM

  If anyone wants to read encrypted messages, they aren't really encrypted. Doesn't make sense.

  If law enforcement is spying on everyone, something's is wrong.

  We don't need a Gestapo or Stasi 2.0

• by somethingsome on 4/24/25, 8:15 PM

  So.. Criminals will move discussions to tor with encrypted messages, and only businesses and normal people will suffer from more hacks? Did I miss something?

• by anamax on 4/24/25, 4:01 PM

  Just wait until police discover that they don't have access to all in-person communication.