Key EU parliament comitee took stance towards protecting end-to-end encryption, and no device scanning. A possible win for privacy
Key EU parliament comitee took stance towards protecting end-to-end encryption, and no device scanning. A possible win for privacy
A key European parliamentary committee has taken an important step to defend user privacy, including end-to-end encryption. The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) has politically agreed on much-needed amendments to a proposed regulation that, in its original form, would...
Thanks to more than 100 civil society groups joined us in speaking out against this proposal. So did thousands of individuals who signed the petition demanding that the EU “Stop Scanning Me.”
The LIBE comity has changed it's stance towards the on device scanning and message scanning.
The text is not final, but scheduled to confirm the new agreement on the 13th of November.
Parliament's position on the proposed law will now be against chat control, but the fight is not over: next we have to negotiate with member states. It's vital we keep the pressure on governments to end this madness.
We won the battle but not the war.
We have to wait and see for eIDAS, let's hope with the changes to eIDAS dead, we'll have at least a few years of the Commission not proposing some dumb surveillance shit
I thought they were on to do something with that article 45 that has something to do with CA certificates. When did they go back and decide not to do it?
That one is a lost battle, alas. We'll have to hack our browsers to make them secure, or download them via VPNs from the US.
It still has to pass the vote beginning of next year.
end-to-end encryption
This wording is concerning, although arguably encrypting a file locally offline then decrypting it again is end-to-end too...