Dictators hate privacy, and so apparently do a lot of EU politicians. Leaked Document Shows The EU Countries That Want To Ban Private Messaging
Makes you almost think they want to be dictators.
But, "It's for the children!" (That is what the almost always say. Next up would be, "It's for national security!")
“Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption,” representatives from Spain said.
End-to-end encryption ensures that only the sender and receiver can see the content of a message. Even the owner of the platform does not have access to the content.
So people who don't understand math or encryption or computers are going to make laws covering all of those things. What could possibly go wrong?
(And yes, this did get stuck in the drafts for a while; it is worth noting.)
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