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by aborsy 453 days ago
I already provided an example with UK, which is terrible. UK is racing ahead of other countries requiring backdoors.

France has had similar proposals floating in their parliament. The latest iteration has been rejected

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/france-re...

But the fact that such proposal is drafted and periodically brought up to this level, isn’t good, and it might be approved in the future.

Example of data collection by the German government

https://privacysniffs.com/data-retention-law/germany/

Australia's Encryption-Busting Law

https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...

What makes you think that EU governments don’t collect data from companies such as Hetzner or OVH, the same way that US collects from Microsoft or Google?