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European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement
58•nickslaughter02•1h ago

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jruohonen•1h ago
Google "security despite encryption" etc. It is some good rhetorical manipulation a'la EU over again.
dgellow•47m ago
We see it in the EU here but the groups pushing for that are everywhere, including the US, UK, Australia, etc

So frustrating to go though that exact same debate every few years

microtonal•45m ago
Indeed. This is also why we should resist getting locked further into the Apple/Google duopoly. In such closed systems it will be straightforward to require backdoors. Much harder if we have general-purpose computers that we can run our own software on.
nerdalytics•27m ago
That's why for wallet features only Apple and Google are allowed. Condition everyone picking only iOS or Android, but not Linux, or others.
microtonal•48m ago
Is the actual text of the workplan somewhere? The linked article refers to the text

more effective tools for law enforcement

in the press release and then infers or implies that this means more encryption backdoors, but I could not find that in an actual EU text?

(Edit: I'm not doubting that they want to make backdoors mandatory, I'd just like to see the actual text.)

petre•43m ago
It's linked in the second paragraph of article.

  More effective tools for law enforcement and stronger JHA agencies

  Law enforcement needs the right tools to be effective. And with 85% of criminal investigations relying on digital information, this includes lawful access to data:

  …
  · A Roadmap on lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement,
  · A Technology Roadmap on encryption, and an impact assessment with a view to updating the EU's data retention rules.
This is pushing for encryption backdoors in eurocrat speech: lawful access to data, roadmap, impact assesment, updating rules.
microtonal•28m ago
What you are citing from is an older press release from April 2025.
miroljub•33m ago
Only a fascist like totalitarian government would keep pushing for more and control and les freedoms.

Their biggest ploy was they convicted people 1984 was a description of a communist dictatorship, and not an execution manual for European democracies on how to strengthen their grips.

tokai•23m ago
I'm so tired of reading stuff like this under any article covering the political struggle over surveillance in EU. While US posts about surveilling journalists, letting 'law' enforcement run wild with no oversight, and so on, either gets flagged to death or talked down.
baal80spam•21m ago
Funny, I see something completely opposite.
DarmokTanagra•10m ago
When you stop seeing it is when you know there is a real problem.
Kim_Bruning•13m ago
Meanwhile the latest gen ai agents are able to crack everything not nailed down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494301

Leaving holes might not be the best plan atm

nekusar•6m ago
I came from the oldschool cypherpunk cryptogeeks when it meant secure comms and not shitcoin.

There was a subset of us who thought that encryption wasn't the final goal, but steganography was needed to HIDE the encrypted comms. Else simple encryption could be attacked legally, or with a crowbar.

And with every bloody week a large government is "let's backdoor encryption haha" its high time to really develop stego that can overlay on top of text, pictures, audio, and video. Only then can they play fuck-fuck games about spying on our comms, and they'll see innocuous banter - but its really stego'd comms overlay.

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