European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-endencryption - the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans? - EU Reporter
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The European Court of Human Rights yesterday banned a general weakeningof secure end-to-end encryption. The judgement argues that encryptionhelps citizens and companies to protect themselves against hacking,theft of identity and personal data, fraud and the unauthoriseddisclosure of confidential information. Backdoors could also beexploited by criminal networks and would seriously jeopardise thesecurity of all users' electronic […]

Holy hell, some excellent news for once?

  • richmondez@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    Glad it’s the court of human rights as the UK is still nominally a part of that if I recall correctly so hopefully derails UK governments attempts as well.

    • Docus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      There will be a law soon declaring government backdoors do not weaken end to end encryption.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Laws can’t be untrue statements. They are commands, imperatives, procedures, not statements.

    • zaphod@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Yes, the ECHR is part of the Council of Europe (no affiliation with the EU or their two confusingly named councils), and for example Russia was a member until 2022.

  • kubica@kbin.social
    3·
    7 months ago

    I want to accept the good news, but I feel so disoriented about what’s going on.
    Last time they seemed so close to pass it and then changed the idea at the last moment.

    • Pleb@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Do you mean the EU? Because the European Court of Human Rights isn’t an EU institution.

        • Pleb@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          No, they are seperate. The ECHR is an institution of the European Convention on Human Rights.
          But the EU would have to abide by this decision since all of its member states also ratified the convention. Although sadly there doesn’t seem to be any consequences for ignoring the rulings (and bribing a bunch of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) represantatives) as seen by Azerbaijan.