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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@beehaw.org • 2 months ago

EU Commission Kicks Off 2025 With Yet Another Plea For Backdoored Encryption

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EU Commission Kicks Off 2025 With Yet Another Plea For Backdoored Encryption

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The EU Commission spent most of 2024 getting knocked around by opponents of its anti-encryption efforts. While it did find some support from countries with, shall we say, more authoritarian urges, …
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    Please have Police focus on better using the data it already has. Rather than just giving it the power to hoard more personal data and endangering public liberties.

    Existing police records are riddled with errors:

    • https://www.propublica.org/article/politic-il-insider-chicago-gang-database
    • https://www.lesnumeriques.com/vie-du-net/alerte-cnil-trop-erreurs-dans-fichiers-police-n29925.html

    Piling more data on top won’t fix these errors. Putting more effort in fixing errors would make the records more useful to police, and would probably avoid ruining the lives of innocents people.

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