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Crypto Wars: Hungarian Presidency continues fight against encryption
According to a draft by the Council, EU member states should implement recommendations from the "Going Dark" expert group to address the "encryption problem".
This emerges from a confidential draft of the Presidency's strategic guidelines for the ministerial body for home affairs and justice, which was published by the civil rights organization Statewatch. According to the Hungarian government, the EU should also "take a more determined approach to preventing and combating terrorism, radicalization, disinformation, violent extremism and anti-democratic tendencies on the internet and offline". EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) has called on her designated new Commissioner for Home Affairs, Magnus Brunner, to "lead the work on a new counter-terrorism agenda" and to update "law enforcement tools for access to digital information and data retention rules".
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