This violation of privacy by EU globalists creates an appearance of doing something amid their continued avoidance of a targeted response to jihad terror. It gives sweeping authority to EU governments to snoop on citizens of their choice. If the past is any indicator of where this plan is headed, the surveillance will end up being used against those considered to be enemies of the state by the globalist countries of the EU. Globalists have long regarded “populists” as enemies and have attempted to invent bogeymen such as “white supremacists,” while allowing jihad terror to advance essentially unopposed.
The central issue regarding jihad terror is not apps, but unvetted immigration and jihad preaching in mosques, Islamic centers and madrassas.
Jihadists have for quite some time infiltrated the refugee stream. In Germany, over half of their deportees went missing; among them were jihadists. In 2016, Germany admitted to losing track of 130,000 migrants, “raising fears over crime and terrorism.” Since then, including during coronavirus lockdown, EU countries have experienced swarms of Muslim refugees coming in unvetted via waterways.
Also, since 2016, France and Germany wanted the European Union to “crack down on encryption,” but did nothing that really would have curbed jihad terror, such as controlling immigration and monitoring mosques, Islamic centers and madrassas. Even in so-called jihadist hotspots, no such efforts have been made, because of fears of being called “Islamophobic” by Islamic supremacist groups across Europe, which have only been strengthened by reckless mass Muslim migration and continue to be.
The EU spy plan is nothing but a disguise, using the recent jihad terror attacks as an excuse in its globalist movement toward totalitarianism. The freedom of European societies is already threatened due to its curbing of the freedom of speech in the face of Sharia pressure. Cracking down on the encryption of messaging apps will likely only further that initiative.
“EU would like to crack down on encryption of messaging apps,” EN24, November 12, 2020:
The terrorist attack perpetrated last week in Austria reopens the debate on end-to-end encryption offered by certain couriers. Once again the EU would like to allow investigators to take a look at what at the moment is practically elusive.
A draft resolution adopted by the council of the European Union could force courier apps to allow intelligence services and police investigators to bypass the end-to-end encryption they offer. To do this, the EU would force services such as WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to provide backdoors allowing the authorities to monitor or trace the exchanges of persons suspected of terrorism, or of individuals involved in online child pornography. The track of an outright ban on these encrypted exchanges would also not be completely excluded.
For the time being, the text under consideration by the EU council is not publicly accessible, specifies the Digital Factory, but the Austrian media ORF was able to consult a document revealing a revised version of this draft resolution.
A text still under study
Assuming that ” there are cases where the encryption makes the analysis of the content of communications (…) extremely difficult or practically impossible despite the fact that access to this data would be legal “, The document consulted by the ORF establishes that it is necessary to guarantee”the capacity of competent authorities in the area of security and criminal justice to exercise legal powers online and offline “. The Council of the EU nevertheless assures to support “the development, implementation and use of strong encryption ”. Consequently, the draft resolution recalls that it is necessary that these future measures be respectful of “principles of legality, transparency, necessity and proportionality ».
As the Digital Factory explains, if the EU moves towards a system of backdoors allowing the police and the intelligence services to have access to suspicious conversations, the institution will be confronted with the resulting security problems. by opening these “backdoors” in encryption systems. And for good reason, over time, these generally become simple vulnerabilities that other intelligence services end up exploiting, just like potential hackers.
The fact remains that this draft resolution still has to pass several stages before being eventually adopted and applied….
Bob Jones says
It is a known fact that EU Nations have already initiated global surveillance. In fact this is old news. None of the member states even bother with a search warrant. They simply go to the source and splice their way into your communications. The present EU is like what the USA was in the fifties, I do not give a hoot! The worst EU offender is Germany.
SJ says
That’s good!
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Christine Douglass is right, it’s a totalitarian takeover in the name of national security.
In the mean time islam is growing, terrorizing, and infiltrating unopposed and in the open. Let’s destroy internet privacy, but then ignore the big islamic elephant that’s crushing the West with their jihad violence and conquering ambitions–NUTS. From a digital security standpoint what governments are attempting to do against encryption is shear madness, a hackers dream and a nightmare for us. The world is already experiencing an epidemic of identity theft and related crimes due to digital vulnerablities, if they make back doors in digital devices it is only a matter of time before they are accessible to bad actors. And by “bad actors” I’m including government individuals and groups who will inevitably use that technology for their own unethical reasons. We’d have to be very naive in thinking that won’t happen, Edward Snowden is a notable example of how vulnerable digital data is to theft or abuse in government (and that remark is neither for or against Snowden, just an example). If you follow sites like the “Hacker News” then you already understand the threat that digital hacking and theft currently is, creating back doors will only increase these dangers exponentially. All our private communications, our medical info, our financial and political views, exposed to any one who can hack, or pay a hacker, to rip us off or destroy our privacy.
This is unethical, unwise, and harmful to ALL.
The same political assault is happening in America against encryption, the EARN IT act and the LAED act threaten to undermine internet privacy forever, increasing our vulnerability to theft and political oppression to the max. It’s being done, they say, for fighting child porn and terrorism which sounds real noble. But we aren’t that stupid, what they really want is to own our thoughts and control our lives. The terror is taught in the mosques openly or as veiled truth, and the child rape is in our streets by muslim men, you don’t have to destroy internet privacy and security to know that. These proposed bills only threaten the honest, law abiding folks while islam operates openly to destroy America and the West. We are on the verge of becoming as bad as China, a dystopian nightmare that reminds me of the film “THX 1138,” where people are defined by an alphanumeric identity and are under constant surveillance by android police.
Creepy, but that’s where we’re headed.
Many in government want to be like gods, they want to control or influence everything we say or do. Islam is very much the same, hence the alliance between the left and islam. They love the power and control their agendas offer and we are finding out they will stop at nothing to achieve them. This attack against internet privacy is only one facet of their totalitarian attack against our right live free and safe from religious and political tyranny. It’s an attempted coup against our individual liberties and dignity as human beings. It’s time we circled the wagons and fight while we still can. Or we will be forever shackled by the fascist aspirations of those who love power more than freedom, and religious tyranny more than human rights that serve us all.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
lol, not “shear” madness, but sheer madness in that first paragraph.
Jayell says
‘it’s a totalitarian takeover in the name of national security……….’
But this is the predictable consequence of attempting to realise that inanely oxymoronic social construct, the ‘multicultural society’. The whole deluded shambles won’t have the inherent cohesion of mutually co-operative citizens who identify with each other to hold it together naturally, so it has to be contained by force ‘from above’ against all the internal conflicting social pressures in order to maintain some semblance of civility until – as happens with all dictatorships – it explodes. In the meantime it will be the group(s) with the loudest mouths who call the tune and the ‘extremists’ who get the blame for the mess at the end.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
That’s right, the leftist gods have decreed that the rest of us will live multiculturally with muslims who hate our culture and freedoms, even if it kills us. And you’re right, the left’s overbearing lordship will go only so far in maintaining “civility.” Eventually good people will feel compelled to resist the destruction of their freedoms and nation for a demonic creed of bigotry and hate. Just recently Spencer expressed the opinion in an interview where he thought Europe is headed for bloodshed and unrest for islam, I’m paraphrasing. He’s right, and America is not far behind. If there’s one thing we learned from 9/11 it’s that islam is not compatible with western values and is a mortal threat to our people and nation. That horrible day should always be the lens through which Americans interpret the violent, totalitarian teachings of islam because those teachings are what inspired that genocidal act of murder. It’s in this context of madness and death for islam that the left is trying to make that round peg of islamic bigotry fit into the square hole western freedoms, and they are sowing the seeds of our destruction in the process. There’s nothing morally or intellectually superior about what they’re doing, it’s simply islamo-fascism that our leftist politicians and media exploit to destroy freedom and tyrannize our citizens. If we think our nation is divided and dangerous now then just wait another 20 years when islam’s poison really takes hold. I believe the west will be long past the point of discussion by then. It will be more about guns and Molotov Coctails, and all the other accouterments of civil war.
Infidel says
Sorry, on this issue, I am a libertarian purist. Government has no business controlling the software I use, the levels of encryption or anything else. For those who talk about law & order, the argument is simple: if a good guy can have backdoor keys to your system, so can bad guys. And after a decade of censorship from big tech companies and today’s culture of doxxing, shadow-banning and all the rest, I absolutely refuse to let any other entity – government or political hacks – access to my data or my devices
Yeah, I get that this is aimed against Jihadists. Solution: kick all those ‘refugees’ out of Europe, then you won’t have that problem! It’s not giving governments more tools to control their citizens: we’ve all seen the power trip they’ve been and are still on thanks to the Chinavirus!
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
A big thumbs up.