[dwheeler]

"In summary, we strongly warn against the currently proposed trilogue agreement, as it fails to properly respect the right to privacy of citizens and secure online communications; without establishing proper safeguards as outlined above, it instead substantially increases the potential for harm."

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has co-signed the Industry Joint Statement on Article 45 in the EU’s eIDAS Regulation, indicating that "Those provisions are likely to weaken the security of the Internet as a whole": https://openssf.org/blog/2023/11/02/openssf-co-signs-industr...

[EGreg]

Good morning. It has actually been happening all around the world, not just in the EU. Given how governments encroached on crypto and ad tech and social tech and in the last 10 years, the writing is on the wall for end-to-end encryption next. They have to know ALL your communications:

I wrote a summary of the countries in the world that have already undermined it, banned it or on the way to banning it:

https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-en...

To be clear: EU here is backdooring https encryption. While also moving to ban end-to-end encryption (Spain leading the way).

[red_admiral]

The pushback against ad tech - or more precisely tracking tech - is hardly the same thing. One of the EU's moves will greatly improve privacy, another one will harm it.

A world is possible where we have end-to-end encryption AND a ban on profiling people online without their consent.

[EGreg]

Sure, and a world is possible when we have other types of tech, too. For example we can have zero-knowledge proofs to access online sites and prove we’re over 18. But the UK government has already passed a law requiring all websites to KYC their members with a passport. And Utah recently passed a law also protecting children on social sites and I asked their politicians directly how they will enforce it — a likely candidate will be requiring ID from everyone.

But the governments when all is said and done don’t care about your privacy.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202309/uk-passes-online-safe...