Notices by Jesper Lund (je5perl@eupolicy.social)

@frebelt @netzpolitik_feed In addition to the point about democratic legitimacy, the sheer ignorance of the HLG is alarming. I have never seen a set of policy recommendations so divorced from reality. Everything is based on an imaginary premise that all devices and services can be backdoored for law enforcement access without creating any cybersecurity vulnerabilities or risks of abuse. Based on this fallacy, we get the worst ideas of the e-Evidence Regulation and Chat Control combined.

The Going Dark High-Level Group is suggesting that the EU should be more like China/Iran and block access to communications services which do not comply with (also suggested) EU law on lawful interception for all types of communications services ("level playing field"), including of course secure #E2EE OTT services.

Source: background document for HLG plenary on 1 March https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/26f7710a-ae4b-4616-a062-99fc93680bed_en?filename=HLG-background-document-01032024_en.pdf #encryption