Despite unprecedented, near all-encompassing levels of surveillance, they have the gall to claim that it is not enough, that as long as we have the smallest scraps of privacy left, terrorists and pedophiles will win.
This is quite surprising to me. Even though I'm aware that European governments regulate tech companies more severely than we're used to in the United States, this topic brings things to an unprecedented level.
What? You realize it’s relatively mainstream thought among US politicians that key escrow and law enforcement access to encrypted data is something they want to exist? Germany is far more privacy conscious than the US. This is one politician. It’s not mainstream.
Encryption will only become more important as information systems flood the world with (meta)-data. We need dynamic P2P architectures and open standards to prevent the extraction of personal information for profit and surveillance.
The EU election is next sunday, vote accordingly and discuss these issues with others.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 30.5 ms ] threadThe EU election is next sunday, vote accordingly and discuss these issues with others.
A single legislator proposing an idea that will never get support isn't really the equivalent of "germany talking" in my book.
Politicians in every country submit crazy legislation that never goes anywhere.
This is just clickbait.
He's the same party which brought this through a regional parliament.