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EU’s Commission’s Anti-Encryption Plans On The Ropes (Again) After Rejection By The Dutch Gov’t
The EU Commission is the definition of insanity. It has tried for years to convince all EU members the best way to fight crime is to undermine the security and privacy of millions of EU residents. …
The European Commission has long been trying to convince Member State governments that the proposed Regulation is legally sound (it isn’t), would protect encryption (it wouldn’t) and that reliable technologies already exist (they don’t). Orban, last seen at Techdirt manipulating emergency powers rolled out during the pandemic to arrest people who called him things like “dear dictator” and “cruel tyrant” on social media, is one of an unfortunate number of European leaders to hold “conservative” views. While one might think that the last ditch effort that briefly converted an aspiring autocrat into a EU salesperson might signal the end of the line for “chat control”/client-side scanning/encryption bans, hope seems to spring eternal at the Commission.
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