As part of its efforts, the bloc has repeatedly introduced its Chat Control legislation, aimed at weakening the encryption that protects messaging services and force providers to provide a client-side backdoor for law enforcement.
The title is missing a second part: “after China, the US, Russia, the UK, etc.”.
I get that privacy is potentially in danger if chatcontrol passes (ie. it’s not right now) and that to raise awareness is worthwhile, but misrepresenting one of the best places privacy-wise as “one of the greatest threats” is just dishonest.
The EU is interesting because there is the GDPR that has good data privacy protection but then they keep bringing up chat control which completely undermines privacy
Because they support limited privacy from corporations, but zero privacy from government. The neoliberals don’t consider that a double standard.
No, those countries are not enshrining in law the requirement for backdoors to serve your own government, for which you’ll be required to comply.
