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Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that weakening end-to-end encryption disproportionately risks undermining human rights. The international court's decision could potentially disrupt the European Commission's proposed plans to require email and messaging service providers to create backdoors that would allow law enforcement to easily decrypt users' messages.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fuck, they were still trying that!?

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah