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The EU takes a statist approach to privacy. Encryption is always a better protection to privacy than ever changing laws. EP members are either inexperienced when it comes to technology or serve a party or a lobby agenda. The only countries opposing for the sake of opposing are Hungary and Poland and their leaders would love encyption being backdoored as long as their secret services can pry at comms.

Educate the Comissioners? The president of the Comission is an ex home secretary ie. a lady with a policing mindset just like Theresa May, only allegedly corrupt. Somehow her phones were wiped clean when required as evidence in a recent investigation. The irony of this legislation is that it could expose her own doings.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/ursula-...

The Comissioners were told to use Signal after Bezos' phone got trojaned through WhatsApp. Encryption is only good when it's for their own benefit.



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