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# European human rights court says no to weakened encryption
- URL: https://werd.io/european-human-rights-court-says-no-to-weakened-encryption/
- Published: 2024-02-22T00:22:18.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-22T00:22:18.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

"The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights."

This renders some of the EU's own proposed legislation illegal. More importantly, client-side scanning and backdoors become illegal in themselves, making it harder for vendors from anywhere to include those features, lest they fall foul of the law with EU users. [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/echr%5Fbackdoor%5Fencryption/)\]