I just don’t get what caused such a radical change. The EU has been at the top of caring about consumer privacy, with countries like germany even creating sweet laws like censoring most buildings from google’s street view.
Now suddenly they want to jeopardize encryption and create backdoors? What gives?
I want to say “climate change” and “wealth inequality”. Those are leading to instability and displacement of people. When those that have little or lost the little they had emigrate or flee to a relatively wealthy place with large inequality, the local population’s richest have a new boogieman. That gets populists elected that make use of a lot of identity politics, with inflammatory and simplistic language. Non-populists see how well that works and feel like they require to employ the same tactics.
Calling for “security” and “protecting the children” are big trigger points for a large section of the society. They can thus frame themselves as “defenders of good” by doing things supposedly in favor of those things.
Don’t get too comfy. Eu wants to make a similar law https://www.wired.com/story/csar-chat-scan-proposal-european-commission-ads/
I just don’t get what caused such a radical change. The EU has been at the top of caring about consumer privacy, with countries like germany even creating sweet laws like censoring most buildings from google’s street view.
Now suddenly they want to jeopardize encryption and create backdoors? What gives?
Conservatives.
I want to say “climate change” and “wealth inequality”. Those are leading to instability and displacement of people. When those that have little or lost the little they had emigrate or flee to a relatively wealthy place with large inequality, the local population’s richest have a new boogieman. That gets populists elected that make use of a lot of identity politics, with inflammatory and simplistic language. Non-populists see how well that works and feel like they require to employ the same tactics.
Calling for “security” and “protecting the children” are big trigger points for a large section of the society. They can thus frame themselves as “defenders of good” by doing things supposedly in favor of those things.
Bribes
What’s the reasoning for censoring buildings from street view??
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-agreement-on-child-sexual-abuse-proposal-csar-european-parliament-wants-to-remove-chat-control-and-safeguard-secure-encryption/