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Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive (dawn.fi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you Finland.

Banning encryption is a stupid idea.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not just stupid, it's reckless.

We're heavily reliant on encryption functioning correctly for even the most mundane activities in our modern lives. Privacy is fundementual right, even if goes against our own governments.

Adding backdoors or weakening ciphers won't stop the criminals, but it sure would make us extremely vulnerable to foreign & domestic actors.