VPN services may soon become a new target of EU lawmakers after being deemed a "key challenge"
VPN services may soon become a new target of EU lawmakers after being deemed a "key challenge"
The EU is considering solutions to ensure lawful data access by design
The EU's HLG (High Level Group) now considers VPNs among “key challenges” to investigative work.
End-to-end encryption is also mentioned in the final report as the biggest technical challenge
Experts are calling for restraint and consideration on the measures, fearing civilians will carry “state spyware in their pockets”
Let me guess those lawmakers themselves will communicate with uncompromised encryption, it is only everyone else that will require a backdoor making all data passing essentially unencrypted. For a second guess let me suggest those lawmakers will not imagine themselves in any way personally responsible for all the data lost by individuals as a result of their proposed measures.
Rules for thee and all of that...
last time I checked it was still kept in secret who are the members of the HLG
Calling it now: before the end of this decade, doing anything (legit) online will require users to verify with a government-backed identity solution provider. Both in EU and US (and therefore de facto everywhere it matters).
Maybe then we'll finally get a cool separate web with hackers and neuromancers and whatnot. Probably not.
"lawmakers" seem like an inappropriate term for the kind of enemies of the general population who usually demand these kinds of measures.
we should call them terrorists before they tag us as terrorists. Because that's what they are.
When will these fucking idiots give up? Like we're ever going to give up privacy? Yeah, right after self-determination, you fucks.
I'll buy a VPN from asia, the middle east, Africa or south america then in that case.
EU investigators not happy with arresting as many people as they currently do. Gotta be locking lots of people up.
most of them moved onto using more sophisticated proxies, and anti-detect browsers, vpn is old news.
oh, that's it...