Germany and France declare War on Encryption to Fight Terrorism by Mohit Kumar.
From the post:
Yet another war on Encryption!
France and Germany are asking the European Union for new laws that would require mobile messaging services to decrypt secure communications on demand and make them available to law enforcement agencies.
French and German interior ministers this week said their governments should be able to access content on encrypted services in order to fight terrorism, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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On demand decryption? For what? Rot-13 encryption?
The Franco-German text transmitted to the European Commission.
The proposal wants to extend current practices of Germany and France with regard to ISPs but doesn’t provide any details about those practices.
In case you have influence with the budget process at the EU, consider pointing out there is no, repeat no evidence that any restriction on encryption will result in better police work combating terrorism.
But then, what government has ever pushed for evidence-based policies?