>It's all about control. Complete, total and utter control over every single aspect of EU citizens' lives. They want to know everything about everyone: nowhere

>It's all about control. Complete, total and utter control over every single aspect of EU citizens' lives. They want to know everything about everyone: nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Notice that similar law attempts were made by UK or pretty much any state. UK is trying real hard to make encryption illegal. This trend is not something European, EU based or about bureaucracy or anything like that. Governments by default want to know and control as much as they can and now the technology is advanced enough to actually let them do that. It's everyones desire to know and control everything. We are in an era where we have to fight that back and make that unfeasible again. IMHO that would be through encryption.