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Does it matter if strong encryption is being eroded on the EU level?

Despite some people pushing for it, I'd say we are very far from EU eroding strong encryption. The support just isn't there.

I know there are claims that EU is on the verge of banning E2E, but they seem to be, AFAICS, exaggerated or unfounded.

It is a recurring topic on Hacker News though recently.

Here's a story from Mailbox.org which is another German email provider focused on Privacy, just like Tutanota: https://mailbox.org/en/post/chat-control-the-latest-eu-plans...

And here a more detailed site: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...

Not sure if this is indeed exaggerated or unfounded and I hope it is. I heard it was taken off the agenda but that was more of a "for now", with plans to revisit it next year.

My thinking. Not sure how they will translate “right to encryption” into law, but if they mean right to E2E encrypted correspondence, then german law will be on a collision course with EU laws in development. If that happens it will be interesting to compare the debate with what happened with Poland this year.

There's already a case where EU and German law clashed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/german-court-dismisses-legal...

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