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, @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.