Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

"While indiscriminate backdoors might be cheaper for the State than alternative investigative measures, they were expensive for society at large on account of the security risks they produced," EISI told the ECHR.

It's great when someone with some sway actually gets it.

I feel like Europe is the only place actually making an effort to protect personal privacy these days.

Such a big win. What a fantastic week.

This is incredibly funny for people who followed this. Everybody and their grandma told the European Commission that there was no way that breaking end-to-end encryption was compatible with the law. Yet they constantly pushed for it anyway and now look at this mess.

I am almost certain that the European Commission will claim that there are still ways to break end-to-end encryption, only to defeated in court yet again. Like they tried with data preservation for law enforcement purposes. They just can't stop themselves.

Ah my never ending love for EU . Is there a way to donate to the EU ?

Pity we don't have any of those human rights in America. Maybe we should join the EU.

Glad to see that it was Russians who went to court for human rights.

Maybe one day, the land of personal freedom and Liberty can have a small amount of the personal freedom and Liberty often declared by the “globalist big government” EU.

The ECHR is not an EU court, it's a Council of Europe court, different organisation.

Edit: To make things more confusing, the EU is in negotiations about joining the Council of Europe.

EU, I belive in you!

Good to get this sort of ruling on the books.