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Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6469594

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

That’s exactly why a law like this wouldn’t make sense, even if you don’t care about privacy.

To enforce a ban of encrypted messaging, any software capable of encryption would have to be banned. Next step almost every existing operating system would have to be banned as well.