cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60408809

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Additionally, the Commission envisions expanding Europol’s role, effectively transforming it into a European equivalent of the FBI, with enhanced operational capabilities.

Granting Europol the ability to access encrypted data can only mean one thing: Brussels is proposing some form of government-mandated backdoor for communication platforms protected by end-to-end encryption.

    • Victoria
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      01 day ago

      That’s their strategy. When everyone is too tired to fight, they will get it through

      • @sibachian@lemmy.ml
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        013 hours ago

        or like the anti-pirate bill from a few years back that had more votes than politicians and no one gave a shit or even remembers that little insane corruption.