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EU Possibly Emerging As One Of The Greatest Threats To Privacy (www.webpronews.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As part of its efforts, the bloc has repeatedly introduced its Chat Control legislation, aimed at weakening the encryption that protects messaging services and force providers to provide a client-side backdoor for law enforcement.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

None of those countries are trying to dismantle encryption entirely so no, I disagree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I genuinely sus that all "fedditors" are Washingtobots

Feddit.org instance even has "fed" and "reddit" in it, what an unholy mix

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Well, the UK sure is trying, and the US was also thinking about it (never got to law-making at least)