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    On Privacy Day, European end-to-end encrypted services ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota are calling on EU policy makers to rethink proposals made in December’s Council Resolution on Encryption

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    On European Data Privacy Day we call on the EU to uphold strong encryption.

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    In December 2020, The Council of the European Union released a five-page resolution that called for the EU to pass new rules to govern the use of end-to-end encryption in Europe. We strongly oppose this resolution because it foreshadows an attack on encryption.

    We were not the only European-based end-to-end encrypted service that was alarmed by the EU’s sudden shift against privacy. Along with Threema, Tresorit, and Tutanota, we are sharing the following joint statement

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    The EU must protect the right to privacy and not attack end-to-end encryption

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    Now that more and more Internet users exercise their right to privacy by using encrypted services like Threema, the EU Council suddenly questions this fundamental right by proposing to deliberately weaken the encryption of secure Internet services.

    In a joint statement, we, together with ProtonMail, Tresorit, and Tutanota, outline why this proposal is not only misguided but also counterproductive and dangerous, and we ask the EU Council to adhere to the spirit of the Data Privacy Day and acknowledge the importance of privacy for democracy

    Blog - Threema

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    The Council of the European Union is currently pushing through proposals that will result in backdoors being installed in end-to-end encrypted platforms like email, messaging and file sharing apps – a step they claim is possible to make without breaking encryption or violating citizens’ rights to privacy.

    This process is akin to giving law enforcement a key to every citizen’s home – a process that would violate the privacy rights of any individual, and one we should take into account when considering how these processes would affect the integrity of a person’s inbox, messages and files

    Data Privacy Day 2021: our alliance in response to encryption backdoors

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    ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota warn EU lawmakers over ‘anti-encryption’ push

    ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota warn EU lawmakers over 'anti-encryption' push

    The December 2020 oxymoronical talk of the EU lawmakers can be found here:

    A counter-terrorism agenda for the EU and a stronger mandate for Europol: questions and answers

    Press corner | European Commission

    and is undercut here

    A backdoor is naturally a bulk intervention. It’s inherently disproportionate. There’s no one-time, single-user ‘backdoor’. At that point you’re basically talking about legally sanctioned hacking of a target suspect. Which is a whole other kettle of security fish.

    It’s also worth noting the Commission agenda commits EU lawmakers to maintaining "the effectiveness of encryption in protecting privacy and security of communications

    On encryption and counter-terrorism, EU lawmakers say they'll work for "lawful" data access