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Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)
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[–] mundane@feddit.nu 203 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"While indiscriminate backdoors might be cheaper for the State than alternative investigative measures, they were expensive for society at large on account of the security risks they produced," EISI told the ECHR.

It's great when someone with some sway actually gets it.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 41 points 8 months ago (3 children)

EU institutions are pretty great, but sooner or later they're going to lose the fight against the technofascist nightmare that's constantly getting pushed on us

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Luckily this is not an EU institution, this is an international treaty above the EU. For example, Azerbaijan is a signatory.

Point is, you can't easily get it through EU legislation to overturn this, as it would need to cross the ECHR, which it won't do.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can’t wait to see the brexiteers’ faces when they realise Britain is still a signatory.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Oh they're still trying to get out of the ECHR so they can deport people to Rwanda.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

Ah duh, I guess I mixed up the ECJ and ECHR and the "EU court" in the headline didn't help

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

For example, Azerbaijan is a signatory.

And doesn't really care, because there's no punishment for, say, being a member of something with "human rights" in the name and Azerbaijan simultaneously.

They even occasionally pay fines for torturing someone to death or things like that. Those fines are not that big.

[–] jojo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stop this fucking doomerism and defeatism

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's the attitude 💪💪