Rights groups push back against EU’s plan to stop end-to-end encryption

The European Union is being urged to stop hiding behind sensitive issues like child abuse in order to achieve its true and sinister goal of effectively doing away with end-to-end encryption for everyone, the bedrock of the internet’s overall security, simply in order to be able to spy on people’s private communications.

Among the digital rights groups that have now penned a letter (obtained here) to the EU to inform the commissioners that what they phrased as an attack on privacy and on basic human rights that Brussels is readying is unacceptable, are the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and European Digital Rights (EDRi).

The EU’s plan to bypass encryption via client-side scanning is much in line, if not coordinated, with what is happening elsewhere in the world, notably in the US: appealing to citizens to forget about the big picture of internet security and their own privacy and “think of the children.”