Businesses call on EU to defend encryption and privacy

In March this year, EU countries' interior ministers are due to vote on the introduction of mandatory client-side scanning for all providers in order to identify child abuse material. But an open letter, published today, from a group of privacy-focused companies warns of the risk of opening up a backdoor and calls on ministers to defend citizen's right to privacy and strengthen the position of EU companies. 'Security experts agree that the chat control proposal by the EU Commission to scan every chat message and every email would create a backdoor -- one that could and will be abused by… [Continue Reading]