European Court of Human Rights bans the weakening of E2EE - Rings death knell for ChatControl

In a ground breaking case, the European Court of Human Rights yesterday banned the weakening of E2EE on the basis that:

"Lastly, as regards the requirement to submit to the security services information necessary to decrypt electronic communications if they are encrypted, the Court observes that international bodies have argued that encryption provides strong technical safeguards against unlawful access to the content of communications and has therefore been widely used as a means of protecting the right to respect for …

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