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The Independent quotes France's interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, as saying
Exchanges carried out via applications like Telegram must be identified and used in the course of judicial proceedings.
[...] We propose that the EU Commission studies the possibility of a legislative act introducing rights and obligations for operators to force them to remove illicit content or decrypt messages as part of investigations, whether or not they are based in Europe.
Similar intentions have been announced by the UK government in the past. Those are still up for debate but were walked back at least slightly in the face of an angry reaction from campaigners and activists.
The same article says that Germany will make the same request.
Previously:
European Privacy Body Slams Shut Backdoors Everywhere
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @09:37PM
Can somebody with more knowledge of the German zeitgeist comment on this?
I somewhat understand why France would support this, especially in recent past and the ongoing "state of emergency." However, Germany (for better or worse) seems to have a lot of cultural awareness and shame of the Holocaust. My understanding is that, as such, they tend to be among the strongest supporters of privacy rights in the world.
Am I mistaken? Did something change in the past five years?
(Score: 1) by quietus on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:20PM
Political consumption. Merkel is mowing away the grass before the feet of right-wing populists (and the CSU). It's not only this encryption thing; she also in recent weeks made moves against [ibtimes.co.uk] the burqa/burkini, talked about [yahoo.com] deals with African countries to quickly take back asylum seekers, and just today called upon German Turks to prove their loyalty [reuters.com] to Germany. All moves to the right side of the political spectrum; there are 2 important state-level elections [wsj.com] coming up next; and a bit of a rumor that her sell-by date is close to passing, especially if she can't handle the migration "crisis".
I'm not German though -- maybe someone with more intimate knowledge of the German news cycle can elaborate a bit further.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @11:34PM
It is not the place of government to dictate attire.
Nobody from Africa has any right to be seeking asylum in the EU.
The woman is delusional.
Not really.
There is no migration "crisis", Merkels position was dictated by the worlds favourite psychopathic jewish nazi. [jpost.com]
The EU support immigration because they want to destroy national identities and supplant the nation state, their wealthy supporters because they will plunder national wealth in the resultant chaos. [rt.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @03:56PM
So basically Merkel has been drifting towards the Nationalistic in recent past, especially in regard to upcoming elections, and everything shifts as a result?
Thanks for the summary.