Comment by pjc50
16 days ago
This sort of policy comes from the Home Office regardless of who gets elected. The spooks always want everything.
You could probably make an ECHR argument about it, but even Germany who are most paranoid about Stasi-like behavior have some sort of rights carveout for law enforcement purposes.
Germany hasn't imposed any similar ban on end-to-end encryption without a law enforcement backdoor. My configured iPhone region, configured Apple ID region, and physical location are all in Germany right now, and I was able to enable Apple's Advanced Data Protection here without a problem.
Yes, German law enforcement does have a rights carveout, but not nearly as big of one as in the UK (or the US).
Yes. Unfortunately those who thought a Labour government would be any less likely to deploy surveillance law than the Conservatives clearly do not have a very long memory. A pervasive obsession with snooping and controlling people's private affairs is one thing the two parties are quite united on