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Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 203 points 8 months ago (15 children)

"While indiscriminate backdoors might be cheaper for the State than alternative investigative measures, they were expensive for society at large on account of the security risks they produced," EISI told the ECHR.

It's great when someone with some sway actually gets it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (14 children)

EU institutions are pretty great, but sooner or later they're going to lose the fight against the technofascist nightmare that's constantly getting pushed on us

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Luckily this is not an EU institution, this is an international treaty above the EU. For example, Azerbaijan is a signatory.

Point is, you can't easily get it through EU legislation to overturn this, as it would need to cross the ECHR, which it won't do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Ah duh, I guess I mixed up the ECJ and ECHR and the "EU court" in the headline didn't help

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