Internet Regulation, Privacy, Hacks, Tech

[Urben]

Today the European Court of Human Rights officially forbid breaking end-to-end encryption because that technology is protecting everyone.

Sorry I have only this hard to understand original source, surely something else pops up soon. Or did and I missed it.

HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights

The most imminent effect should be that the client-side scanning contained in the EU commision’s “Chat control” laws is clearly illegal now and has to be adjusted before continuing legislation.

Note that the European Court of Human Rights it not limited to the European Union, member states even today also include the United Kingdom. I would expect it enables to fight against the most recent Online Safety Bill there too.

Internet Regulation, Privacy, Hacks, Tech

Aaaand it’s done. The government, however, has said the bill does not ban end-to-end encryption. Instead it will require companies to take action to stop child abuse on their platforms and as a last resort develop technology to scan encrypted messages, it has said. Tech companies have said scanning messages and end-to-end encryption are fundamentally incompatible.

Russia was a member state too until recently. The case that was ruled on here was against the Russian government originally and we can be glad them leaving did not stop the ruling.