‘Five Eyes’ alliance demands ways to access encrypted apps
The "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance demanded Sunday that tech companies insert "backdoors" in encrypted apps to allow law enforcement agencies the access they say they need to police online criminality.
View ArticleEuropean police pounce after cracking encrypted phone network
Police said Wednesday (10 March) they had arrested at least 80 people and carried out hundreds of raids in two European countries after shutting down an encrypted phone network used by organised crime...
View ArticleCommission seeks to calm fears over Europol’s decryption platform
The European Commission has issued assurances to MEPs that Europol's new decryption platform will not be used to abuse data protection standards and will maintain closely guarded access rights over the...
View ArticleCommission calls for online ‘battering rams’ to break encryption
The EU executive will help countries work on encryption-breaking for when law enforcement has legal access to the information as part of a strategy to fight organised crime presented on Wednesday (14...
View ArticlePegasus shows no backdoor will be used only by good guys, Proton CEO say
Commenting on a recent cyber-surveillance scandal, a tech leader said encryption has made mass operations impossible and its integrity should be maintained at all costs, but he also pointed to Big...
View ArticlePressure ramps up on Apple to back out from its ‘surveillance’ plan
An open letter signed by more than 90 civil society organisations on Thursday (19 August) urged Apple to abandon its recently announced plan to introduce scanning features to detect child sexual abuse...
View ArticleI confess I’ve got things to hide
In recent years there has been a backlash against encryption by governments and policy makers across the world. However, encryption is critical for our digital society’s safety, writes David...
View ArticleEU anti-child abuse law could open doors for mass surveillance, report says
Security experts warn that the tools used by tech giants to detect child abuse online pose serious security and privacy risks, raising concerns around upcoming EU legislation.
View ArticleWhistleblowers are impossible without encryption, Edward Snowden says
On Global Encryption Day (21 October), Edward Snowden, the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, defined encryption as a matter of life and death. A day earlier, a coalition of EU...
View ArticleDigital Brief powered by Google: vital encryption, Germany’s coalition talks,...
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “It would have been impossible for me to whistleblow without...
View ArticleDigital Brief powered by Facebook: gig economy, roaming extension, battle of...
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View ArticleThe Netherlands provides global hub for child pornography
The European Commission's proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online is still pending, while the EU has become a 'destination of choice' when it comes to hosting such content,...
View ArticleLEAK: Commission to force scanning of communications to combat child pornography
The European Commission is to put forward a generalised scanning obligation for messaging services, according to a draft proposal obtained by EURACTIV.
View ArticleFrench data protection watchdog: Tweaking Google Analytics won’t make it legal
Google Analytics' use is not legal without a new deal that would replace the disgraced EU-US data processing agreement, French data watchdog CNIL recently clarified on its website, which also dashed...
View ArticleEU countries in search of ‘solutions’ over data retention, encryption
Data retention and encryption emerged as the most pressing issues for law enforcement in the EU government's comments on the establishment of a High-Level Expert Group on police access to digital data.
View ArticleChild sexual abuse: leading MEP sceptical of technical limitations
As the European Parliament’s published its draft report on the proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the rapporteur shared with EURACTIV his vision about the key aspects of the file....
View ArticleSwedish presidency circulates full rewrite on law against child sexual abuse
A new compromise text by the Swedish EU Council presidency on the legislative proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online makes significant amendments to the entire text, including the...
View ArticlePoland slams child sexual abuse material regulation as unnecessary
The regulation to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online is unnecessary as there are other regulations for safety on the internet, Paweł Lewandowski, Polish undersecretary of state at the...
View ArticleUK government concedes on Online Safety Bill’s controversial spy clause,...
Following concessions on the UK’s Online Safety Bill, the government has conceded that their controversial wish for platforms to scan messages for harmful content, is not “technically feasible”,...
View ArticleGerman MPs back potential Schrems III, EU Parliament wants to abolish extra...
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