Re:European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private...
by bwindels on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:25PM
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Hypocrisy is not something our governments are immune from, and the words of commissioner Johansson are not encouraging:
> She wants tech companies to face mandatory detecting and reporting obligations
> “The problem is that many of these communications are now being end-to-end encrypted,” she said, whereby only the users exchanging messages have access to the content.
> While encryption is "really important," she said, "we don't want pedophiles to be able to do whatever they want, to not be seen, we have to protect [children] so this is not an easy challenge to tackle.”
> She wants tech companies to face mandatory detecting and reporting obligations
> “The problem is that many of these communications are now being end-to-end encrypted,” she said, whereby only the users exchanging messages have access to the content.
> While encryption is "really important," she said, "we don't want pedophiles to be able to do whatever they want, to not be seen, we have to protect [children] so this is not an easy challenge to tackle.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/encryption-could-hinder-chil...
As long as politicians pretend that you can have both I'll assume they are either disingenuous or ignorant and I won't be at ease.