Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Is the incoming majority particularly anti-piracy? I thought they were more fixated on leaving the EU, gutting the “woke” public sector, and rounding up all the immigrants for deportation.

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      5 months ago

      Just to make things clear, the pirate party isn’t directly related to piracy. There are ongoing efforts to render end-to-end encryption illegal in Europe as we speak. Dark times are coming

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        5 months ago

        There are ongoing efforts to render end-to-end encryption illegal in Europe as we speak.

        I can’t imagine how you stop all end to end encryption across a continent while you’re exiting the continent-wide governing body.

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            5 months ago

            They whom? Is every country going to have it’s own national firewall, complete with highly sophisticated SMS-only encryption detecting service?

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              5 months ago

              The EU plans to do so and as such every member must follow it.

              And once encryption is criminalized, it can be trivially detected - or at least assumed to be encrypted if your message is sufficiently random.