EU Data Protection Chief: Encryption should be promoted, backdoors illegal

[TheIrishman]

EU Data Protection Chief: Encryption should be promoted, backdoors should be illegal

http://www.neowin.net/news/eu-data-protection-chief-encryption-should-be-promoted-backdoors-should-be-illegal

<< European citizens' communications should be protected on all mediums, including online, by telephone, over VoIP services, and across apps. Decryptions and other efforts to weaken or reverse engineer encryption should be prohibited. This is the conclusion that the EU's Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) reached with regards to the EU's ePrivacy Directive.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the EDPS and Europe's so-called data chief, expressed his view in an official piece published as the European Commission is looking to revamp the EU ePrivacy Directive – the "Cookie Law" – to get it in line the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). >>

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[criptix]

Wtf...the EU is not the right arm of Hitler?

My worldview is crumbling 

[helloeverybody]

This is more like it. Every time i hear a story about the EU and encryption/ bitcoin or anything related its about adding backdoors and letting goverments in to snoop.  Every individual living anywhere should be free to keep their personal data private using whatever encryption methods they deem necessary . Maybe we are actually moving forward technology wise than backwards for a change.

[Karartma1]

Strangely enough whe the EU talk about the feeedom involved in using bitcoin then they are not at all privacy-oriented.
So which EU version of the story do we have to read?

The one that wants every cryptocurrency user profiled or this one?

 

[Racey]

Strangely enough whe the EU talk about the feeedom involved in using bitcoin then they are not at all privacy-oriented.
So which EU version of the story do we have to read?

The one that wants every cryptocurrency user profiled or this one?

 

You got that right, have you seen the proposals they have set out.

 
http://news.softpedia.com/news/eu-plans-database-of-bitcoin-users-with-identities-and-wallet-addresses-506650.shtml

[NeuroticFish]

EU is ran by politicians.
They are helped by specialists.

Now, some want to do good and some want to get rich, like all the politicians over the world.
Some want to control everybody, others think of us as their equals.

That's why the laws they make or propose are so... contradictory. imho..

[countryfree]

Europe has a large administration, and many politicians. It's not unusual to see some them having different opinions. They may not contradictory, though. One guy was talking privacy of correspondence, the other of financial transactions.

[Karartma1]

Strangely enough when the EU talk about the feeedom involved in using bitcoin then they are not at all privacy-oriented.
So which EU version of the story do we have to read?

The one that wants every cryptocurrency user profiled or this one?

 

You got that right, have you seen the proposals they have set out.

 
http://news.softpedia.com/news/eu-plans-database-of-bitcoin-users-with-identities-and-wallet-addresses-506650.shtml

Yes Racey, that is precisely what I was referring to.
I'm thinking that whoever did the ID check/verification with the EU-based exchanges will be monitored.

[virtualx]

EU is ran by politicians.
They are helped by specialists.

Now, some want to do good and some want to get rich, like all the politicians over the world.
Some want to control everybody, others think of us as their equals.

That's why the laws they make or propose are so... contradictory. imho..

Specialists? That's why we the rest of the world has to deal with that ridiculous cookie law?

EU politicians only goal is to get rich I think.