Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by StanislavPetrov on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:49PM
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>They're OK with needing approval or getting a warrant to read your email just as long as it's some 3rd party granting access so you won't know.
Of course nobody will ever examine the warrants or the approval process to ensure that "lawful access" is only granted when even the minimal evidentiary standards they require are met. And if they do someday examine those warrants, and find out that they are riddled with falsehoods and inaccuracies that resulted in unlawful spying, it will all be swept under the rug and nobody responsible will be held to legal account - as we have seen in the US.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824510255/justice-department-...
Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by phkahler on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:35AM
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>> Of course nobody will ever examine the warrants or the approval process to ensure that "lawful access" is only granted when even the minimal evidentiary standards they require are met.
Yet another reason they dont want to serve warrants directly on individuals. If people know it's happening they'll question it and make public anything corrupt in the process.
As is the case everywhere, they claim to want lawful access. In reality that's a minor point, what they really want is access to information without the knowledge of its owner. They're OK with needing approval or getting a warrant to read your email just as long as it's some 3rd party granting access so you won't know. Otherwise just get a warrant for Alice and Bob's email and compel them to decrypt it. No new laws or systems are actually required for that.