European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

Post by hilios » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

trinsic2 wrote: post #102

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The dictators part is false, the EU is not a structure you can easily dictate. But this encryption backdoor thing is somebody's pet project and extremely alarming. The UK has a similar bend they've already put in place with IPA and TCNs. The US is way gone on decrypted stored data and metadata, but not on encryption backdoors yet, though legislators have tried.

Can you please explain to me why you think this is the case? Can parliament make law or not? Why is the commission the only body that can make law? Its staffed with people that appear to serve special interests. I saw this during the Stop Killing Games Where the EU commission meet with the game industry privately in EU before the decision on the Stop Destroying Video games Initiative. If there is no way to challenge…

Post by ExoticPearTree » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 11:19 AM UTC

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> But that could have been prevented if the EU did not have an open-doors migration policy to start with. And to have listened to the people on other issues too. I believe there are more nuances to this, then simply blaming it on immigration policies. There are a lot of variables in place for why far right movements are and have been on the rise in the EU. And I certainly believe the issues could've been handled bett…

I don't think Spain or Sweden are very responsible for most of the Middle Eastern woes. If anything, blame the US.

Post by 1718627440 » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 1:15 PM UTC

Xelbair wrote: post #187

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Not that they don't disregard some of my opinions too, but I am quite worried about the opinions of some of the other citizens. The worst thing might be that it is kind (or close to) a best possible average (can't assess honestly). When I talk with many (mostly opinionated) people, at various ends of various positions (left, right, ecology, industry, security, etc.) I can't imagine any leadership that would make a si…

Or maybe it's impossible to satisfy desires of such culturally diverse populace as EU citizens. Which makes current model, and federated model impossible and/or prone to crumbling. Problems of Germany are different than one Spain faces, and France, and Poland etc.

Post by 1718627440 » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

trinsic2 wrote: post #172

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That's a bit of a touchy subject that exposes the fact that the EU has repurposed a system for designing industry standards (not laws) and has a shaky legal foundation. To some extent countries are bound by EU law, but what this means depends on the institutions and legal structure within that country. Although the EU tends to claim they have final say, but how can someone interpreting national law agree with that if…

Yeah this sounds like another scam. I big one. We should really find another way to govern societies.

Post by amrit3128 » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

ExoticPearTree wrote: post #101

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Europe has learned the lesson that extremists are bad, but it has not learned the lesson that the tools shouldn't exist.

There will always be extremists on both sides of the political spectrum. The problem is quite simple: people swing more to one side or another if their voices are not heard. The current boogeyman is the growth of the far-right in Europe. But that could have been prevented if the EU did not have an open-doors migration policy to start with. And to have listened to the people on other issues too.