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Why are so many European countries getting worried about encryption and/or age verification? Why now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I can understand why governments would push for something like this after 9/11, though it of course goes without saying that this is a totally unacceptable violation of someone's basic rights. It also goes without saying that governments always want more control over their citizens, but what exactly are they so worried might happen, right now, in 2025 or the near future?

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

messengers started to E2EE

This is a big deal. I've had the archetypal non-technical user, my mother send me a PGP encrypted email. It will probably come as no surprise to anyone who has done so that this did not become our default.

Now the majority of our messaging and calling is via Signal. It's effortless.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yup, that is why (if memory serves) the chat control proposal has rules in it that look like they were specifically written for messengers, the authors seem to have no clue that encryption can, you know, just be run on any device using publicly available algorithms...

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Once they figure that out, they'll probably just make any encryption illegal...

Then we will probably just develop encryption algorithms that look like regular text messages, or hide the encrypted content inside some audio, image, video or other normal types of files.

[–] Sailor88@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

My signal chats will all start with:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

Soon, I'm guessing.