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from the first-one-way-then-the-other dept.
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: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 24 2016, @09:41PM
On the other hand, I'm happy that they feel they need a law. That means they don't have an easy way to break known encryptions.
Also it implies they aren't like the authorities in the U.S., in that they can do whatever the hell they want then come up with justifications for it later. And sometimes even the justifications are blatantly illegal.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"