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German government publishes law to guarantee 'right to encryption'
The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs (BMDV) has drawn up a draft bill that will make end-to-end encryption mandatory for messengers and cloud services in the future.
Beginning 2024, German net activists from Netzpolitik.org have published the draft law that aims at making end-to-end encryption mandatory for messenger, email and cloud service providers. This is amazing news not just for us as an encrypted email service, but much more so for all citizens and businesses: Once this draft law of the German government is being passed, they will finally get a guarantee for the secrecy of digital communication. The digital policy spokesperson for the FDP parliamentary group, Maximilian Funke-Kaiser, tells Netzpolotik.org that the law is a necessary measure to prevent future attacks on online confidentiality with legislative approaches like Chat Control:
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