> France has put forward an anti-drug trafficking law that critics say would ban encryption. The Nordic countries have taken the fight to tech companies. Spain

> France has put forward an anti-drug trafficking law that critics say would ban encryption. The Nordic countries have taken the fight to tech companies. Spain said it wants to ban encryption. And the U.K. government has now entered a legal battle with Apple over an apparent attempt to secretly spy on encrypted data. > Denmark will soon take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, giving it an influential role at a time when EU countries are debating the bloc’s child sexual abuse material bill (CSAM). That draft legislation could impose an obligation on all messaging platforms to conduct blanket scans on their content to root out child abuse images — even if they're end-to-end encrypted and thus technically out of reach of the platforms themselves. The land of the free.