EU Court Rules that Encryption Backdoors Undermine Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that “weakening end-to-end encryption disproportionately risks undermining human rights,” reports Ashley Belanger.
The court’s ruling in the case, which involved Russia's intelligence agency (FSS) and Telegram, states that "any disclosure of encryption keys" would affect the "privacy of the correspondence of all Telegram users.”
Additionally, the ruling states that "confidentiality of communications is an essential element of the right to respect for private life and correspondence.” And, requiring messages to be decrypted by law enforcement "cannot be regarded as necessary in a democratic society."
Read more at Ars Technica.
Related content
-
Anonymization and pseudonymization of data
Data anonymization and pseudonymization are two key techniques that ensure privacy while enabling the use of data for analysis and decision making; the two methods offer different approaches that vary as a function of use case. -
Encrypting files
Encrypting your data is becoming increasingly important, but you don't always have to use an encrypted filesystem. Sometimes just encrypting files is enough. -
Safe Files
Encrypting your data is becoming increasingly important, but you don’t always have to use an encrypted filesystem. Sometimes just encrypting files is enough.
-
Advanced Security in Windows Firewall
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security was introduced in Vista/Windows Server 2008. Compared with the old Windows Firewall, it offers many new features and possibilities.
-
Arm yourself against cloud attacks
We present approaches and solutions for protecting yourself against attacks in the cloud.