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Really disappointing to see this coming from the EU, I expected better from them
This needs more visibility
Looking forward to the flood of lawsuits to strike this thing down, just as any other proposal that goes on thisndirecto
How can this be enforced?
The (Tory) UK government tried this exact same thing, accepted that it wasn't possible to enforce, but pushed the law through anyway earlier this year.
By fining corporations that dont install backdoors in their software
So the police state folks are advancing. shudder
Maybe that's good that Wire moved to the US.
Buy honestly I dont see how this could pass. It would be terrible for the privacy of both children and adults. In general the EU has done great work on digital privacy rights recently
But this law is for the protection of children. It was inevitable, in my opinion as a somewhat informed layman, that it would come to this. It was either going to be about protecting children or something to do with terrorism.
Many FOSS users will find it easy to adapt. We have some choices, and a few countries are trying to block it. Here in France, people buy and sell drugs on Twitter and Instagram thinking they're being sneaky with their codewords like "broccoli" and "chocolate" so they won't notice a difference. They think Snapchat is private cause the messages disappear.
We just want our data stored here.
legalize math!
I hope this won't effect protonmail.
Obligatory warning: Protonmail offers zero protection against orders issued to Protonmail to spy on any target.
They serve you the JavaScript used for encryption, you have no way of checking whether it's the same they serve everyone else, or whether your version has a backdoor.
How do we stop this? Contacting MEPs? Signing petitions?