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A comment on EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by londons_explore on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:38AM (#25033356)
> little assurance that the government will not start abusing this power.

My hope is that if millions of people started seeing these messages next to their conversations with their lovers, the people would vote for a different government.

There's a big difference between knowing big brother is scanning for criminals, to seeing big brother has right now looked at my private message.

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Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by feanaro on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:43AM (#25033393)
That's a bleak future to hope for. We can do better. How about if we do not allow big brother to scan for criminals in the first place? Big brother has no business scanning for anything.

Also, remember that criminals are defined by the law and the law is defined by the government.

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