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VPN services may soon become a new target of EU lawmakers after being deemed a "key challenge"


The EU is considering solutions to ensure lawful data access by design

End-to-end encryption is also mentioned in the final report as the biggest technical challenge Experts are calling for restraint and consideration on the measures, fearing civilians will carry “state spyware in their pockets” For the first time, an EU expert group has explicitly mentioned VPN services as "key challenges" to the investigative work of law enforcement agencies, alongside encrypted devices, apps, and new communications operators. Previously, concerns were mostly reserved for messaging apps or secure email software using encryption to scramble users' content into an unreadable form, de facto making it difficult (if not impossible) for authorities to successfully decrypt wanted information.

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