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[-] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 80 points 1 year ago

What is wrong with the eu? Why do they need to always ban end to end encryption?

[-] variaatio@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

As I remember at the moment partly Von Der Leyen, the current Commission president. She is a German Christian democrat and apparently bit with capital C. Meaning she has bit of a moral panic streak on her of the "won't you think of the children" variety. As I understand this current proposal is very much driven by her.

However her driving it doesn't mean it sail through to pass as legislation. Some whole memberstate governments are against the encryption busting idea.

[-] sintrenton@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

And the fact that Ylva Johansson, being technologically illiterate as well as a close bed buddy with companies in the surveillance industry that stand to earn a crap load of money doesn't help...

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