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Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption
- deogeo 7y agoDespite unprecedented, near all-encompassing levels of surveillance, they have the gall to claim that it is not enough, that as long as we have the smallest scraps of privacy left, terrorists and pedophiles will win.
- Jeff_Brown 7y agoThis does seem like the natural next step, given the existing bans on whispering and curtains.
- monicageller018 7y agoThis is quite surprising to me. Even though I'm aware that European governments regulate tech companies more severely than we're used to in the United States, this topic brings things to an unprecedented level.
- blcknight 7y agoWhat? You realize it’s relatively mainstream thought among US politicians that key escrow and law enforcement access to encrypted data is something they want to exist? Germany is far more privacy conscious than the US. This is one politician. It’s not mainstream.
- alanzuse 7y agoEncryption will only become more important as information systems flood the world with (meta)-data. We need dynamic P2P architectures and open standards to prevent the extraction of personal information for profit and surveillance. The EU election is next sunday, vote accordingly and discuss these issues with others.
- rando444 7y agoAs all the comments in the article suggest, there is nothing to see here. A single legislator proposing an idea that will never get support isn't really the equivalent of "germany talking" in my book. Politicians in every country submit crazy legislation that never goes anywhere. This is just clickbait.
- chopin 7y agoYou mean like indefinite detention for security reasons? Oh, wait... He's the same party which brought this through a regional parliament.