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Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

EU: "This violates human rights"

US: "Human rights? What are those? Are they in the constitution?"

Yeah, I wish the US could get some of those mysterious rights

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

US: “Human rights? What are those? Are they in the constitution?”

There actually are strong privacy rights written into the constitution. Unfortunately they don't fit well with modern data collection creating loopholes big enough to drive a truck through.

And nothing is being done to close those loopholes. In fact the opposite... end to end encryption, for example, would close most of the loopholes. Legislators are using "think of the children!" arguments to try to stop companies from upgrading services to use E2EE.