The Joint Declaration was agreed upon at an informal meeting of the European Chiefs of Police in London hosted by the National Crime Agency on 18 April.
Police Chiefs of all EU Member States and Schengen Associated Countries were invited, alongside Europol’s Executive Director.
Here is the declaration (pdf).
“Thieve’s Guild calls for homeowners to take actions against door lock rollout”
You win the Internet for today!
And it is with the good old “think of the children”. They keep trying to sneak in legislation at EU level to kill privacy, I dread to see the day when it will pass (especially if at the next elections there will be a shift to the right)…
Kids need privacy too. Takes a pedo to disagree.
If you make encryption illegal, only criminals will use encryption!
As far as I know killing people is illegal, hasn’t stopped some to do it nevertheless. And it won’t help protect the infamous “the children” either.
I need privacy not because my actions are questionable but because your judgement and intentions are questionable.
Also the judgement and laws could change. Potentially rendering everything you do now illegal. Therefore it could be used for prosecuting you later for something you did while it was perfectly legal.
Learn to hack, pigs.
The pigs want easier targets because they’re losing the game with it’s initial conditions.
There’s not much they can do about PGP, though. Sure, encrypting stuff manually can get a little bit annoying, but nothing a quick browset extension wouldn’t fix.
The moat difficult part will ve convincing your friends to use it, and actually sharing keys, but if you really need to hide what you’re talking about, it’s not like stopping a e2e rollout will help in amy capacity. Quite the contrary - people who they want to target with this will only start to be even more carefull, reaulting in them loosing access even to those backdoored privacy messengers they already probably have and criminals rely on.
Been routing for Europol for a long time, not anymore. What a shame
