The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that weakening end-to-end encryption disproportionately risks undermining human rights. The international court’s decision could potentially disrupt the European Commission’s proposed plans to require email and messaging service providers to create backdoors that would allow law enforcement to easily decrypt users’ messages.

ACAB

I don’t need corrupt police in my email. As one can see from the vast array of mass shootings throughout my country, handing over this kind of intrusive capability doesn’t help us.

Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says.

Do they mean https://xkcd.com/538