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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: 2, Insightful) by Francis on Wednesday August 24 2016, @11:26PM
At present there's no evidence to suggest that a lack of backdoors is actually holding investigations back with any frequency.
Cases where there's evidence locked in an encrypted volume are rare. The criminals they catch tend to be stupid enough that they hand the police the relevant data without need of breaking into it. Or they hack into the computer and use a keylogger to get the necessary password to decrypt the drive.
The main reason why they want it, is because they're looking for more power, not because there's this large volume of drives that they absolutely need to decrypt otherwise the terrorist will blow up puppies.