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EU States Push for Access to Encrypted Data and Increased Surveillance
Most EU member states welcome the demands of a group of experts for more surveillance. The panel was criticized in advance for being biased and one-sided. Nevertheless, there is hardly any opposition to the panel's recommendations, as a secret protocol that we are publishing shows.
– Public Domain generated with MidjourneyThe recently published recommendations of an high level expert group on the topic of going dark were also discussed in the Standing Committee on Internal Security (COSI). Police forces and intelligence services call this phenomenon „going dark.“ However, studies doubt the negative effects, partly because digital technologies provide the security authorities with a wealth of data that they did not have in the past. Hungary called access to data a „key element for effective law enforcement“ and found the results of the expert group to be „impressive and forward-looking.“ According to the minutes, the police authority Europol emphasized the danger of end-to-end encryption being misused by criminals, a view shared by Greece.
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