“It is not a secret for anyone that I would like to see ambitious regulations on sexual abuse on children,” said Hummelgaard.
The EU will not stop there. The European Commission, the executive power of the block, unveiled this month a new internal security strategy, establishing plans to examine access to “lawful and effective” data for the police and to find technological solutions to access encrypted data.
He also wishes to start working on a new data retention law, he said in the strategy, which would define the types of data that messaging services, including digital services like WhatsApp, should store and keep, and for how long. The main court of the EU canceled the previous law on data retention in 2014, saying that it was interfering with people’s privacy rights.
The commission presents a united front in its plans to help the police. The internal security strategy was presented jointly by Henna Virkkunen, a powerful executive vice-president who heads the digital department, and Magnus Brunner, the commissioner in charge of domestic affairs. Both are from the European center-right party, as is the chairman of the Ursula von der Leyen commission.
Police are confronted with confidentiality groups
By taking encryption, European governments are heading for a massive confrontation with a powerful political coalition of private life activists, cybersecurity experts, intelligence and governments promoting privacy compared to access to the police.
The strands of this fight date until the last century. Cryptography was a powerful asset during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union aimed to restrict access to technology to keep control of confidential communication. But technology increased in stature at the time of the Internet, underlies everything, from digital bank to sensitive data transfers. In recent years, an increasing number of large technological companies have evolved into the use of end -to -end encryption as a default parameter.
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