The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide(eff.org)

555 points by pwmtr 3 years ago | 352 comments

EFF Deeplinks article arguing the U.K.'s Online Safety Bill could undermine end-to-end encryption for users worldwide.

Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool(eff.org)

125 points by laserstrahl 2 years ago | 30 comments

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs(eff.org)

561 points by gslin 11 months ago | 320 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Rindala Alajaji criticizing lawmakers' proposals to ban or restrict VPNs as technically uninformed.

Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 will roll back web security by 12 years(eff.org)

178 points by agwa 3 years ago | 75 comments

EU Council Presidency's Last-Ditch Effort for Mass Scanning Must Be Rejected(eff.org)

18 points by latexr 2 years ago | 1 comments

New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder(eff.org)

273 points by healsdata 1 year ago | 90 comments

French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data(bleepingcomputer.com)

383 points by robtherobber 6 months ago | 138 comments

News report that a French government agency confirmed a data breach after a hacker offered the stolen data for sale.

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy(reclaimthenet.org)

375 points by nickslaughter02 1 month ago | 160 comments

Reclaim The Net article reporting that the European Commission's ProtectEU strategy revives plans for encryption backdoors under the framing of lawful access.

France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms(blast-info.fr)

98 points by noplay 1 day ago | 87 comments

Blast exclusive reporting that French PM Sébastien Lecornu asked Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues to prepare blocking TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X before the October 24 protest.

France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins(numerique.gouv.fr)

746 points by embedding-shape 6 months ago | 358 comments

French government press release on accelerating digital sovereignty and reducing dependence on non-European tech, following an interministerial seminar.

Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition(andreafortuna.org)

475 points by speckx 11 months ago | 131 comments

Blog post reporting that the EU Council's Chat Control proposal for scanning encrypted messages was withdrawn by the Danish presidency after public opposition.

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs(eff.org)

561 points by gslin 11 months ago | 320 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Rindala Alajaji criticizing lawmakers' proposals to ban or restrict VPNs as technically uninformed.