The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that governments asking tech companies to provide encryption backdoors violates human rights.
This is awkward as various European countries are trying to pass laws mandating exactly that. Hopefully this is one more nail in the coffin.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/human-rights-court-takes-stand-against-weakening-of-end-to-end-encryption/
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2024-02-15 11:29:23
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