Technology giants must do more to co-operate with law enforcement on encryption or they risk threatening European democracy, according to the head of Europol … companies had a “social responsibility” to give the police access to encrypted messages … “Anonymity is not a fundamental right” … “You will not be able to enforce democracy [without backdoors].”
Aside from the matter of enforcing democracy (like: is voting going to become a legal obligation, now?) there’s the quote:
Catherine De Bolle told the Financial Times … that companies had a “social responsibility” to give the police access to encrypted messages that are used by criminals to remain anonymous.
…and I’m like: metadata analysis exists.
This is not criminals being anonymous, this is everyone having privacy.
It’s a misleading frame, possible intentionally.
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