Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Who's exiting? They will just ban any non-compliant messaging app

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They whom? Is every country going to have it's own national firewall, complete with highly sophisticated SMS-only encryption detecting service?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The EU plans to do so and as such every member must follow it.

    And once encryption is criminalized, it can be trivially detected - or at least assumed to be encrypted if your message is sufficiently random.

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