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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who's exiting? They will just ban any non-compliant messaging app

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The EU plans to do so

A bunch of these alt-right parties are anti-EU

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Doesn't change anything at all