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 Thursday August 25 2016, @12:11AM
Why would the right wing want to ban encryption?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @06:22AM
At least in Germany these voters are mostly computer-illiterate people in the 60+ age group. They just want "control" over some unseen evil in a world that is increasingly "too young" for them to understand.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by ewk on Thursday August 25 2016, @11:15AM
What you cannot see, you cannot control.
Since right wingers want to control everything/everyone, you need to be able to see everything/everyone.
Hence the 'need' for backdoored encryption (or 'need' for the prohibition of wearing hoodies/masks on certain venues).
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