European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out | Europol
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European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out

The Joint Declaration was agreed upon at an informal meeting of the European Chiefs of Police in London hosted by the National Crime Agency on 18 April.

Police Chiefs of all EU Member States and Schengen Associated Countries were invited, alongside Europol’s Executive Director.

Here is the declaration (pdf).

  • talEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I mean, E2E encryption is gonna make life harder for police than its been since we standardized on poorly-secured electronic communication devices. The FBI isn’t too keen on it either.

    There’s probably going to be a cost in terms of criminality, but I think that it’s one worth paying.