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> WhatsApp CEO: I am worried by another surveillance law that Germany plans to pass that could force messenger apps and email providers to actively help governm
by nindalf 6y ago
> WhatsApp CEO: I am worried by another surveillance law that Germany plans to pass that could force messenger apps and email providers to actively help government agencies to smuggle malware onto the devices of their customers.
> Der Spiegel: The government says it needs this technology to read messages from terrorists at a point before they are encrypted on their phone. What’s wrong with that?
Maybe Der Spiegel is asking the question simply to elicit the interviewee's opinion. But it strikes me as very strange that a German paper aimed at a German audience would be asking why citizens need protection from government surveillance. Germans are possibly the most privacy conscious folks in the world because of a history of invasive government surveillance.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoDer Spiegel likes their rights to be an independent news source (press) but they don't seem to care about other people's rights to privacy based on boogey men like terrorists. THere are other ways to find those guys, you don't have to hoover up 100% of everyone's communications to be able to do that.
- croes 6y agoAnd yet the government tries to install massive surveillance laws in regularity.
- hutattedonmyarm 6y agoI’m not sure how much this is still the case. The government has been massively pushing mass surveillance during the last few years, all under the „terrorists“ and „child abusers“ and almost everyone outside my privacy/tech bubble is in favor of it
- intricatedetail 6y agoWhat if the next German is going to use that information to map out certain groups of people to send them to camps? Did Germans not learn? This development is extremely troubling.