France says ‘defence secrecy’ in police surveillance operations is constitutional
Constitutional court finds that invoking ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about the state hacking of EncroChat cryptophones is constitutional.

Constitutional court finds that invoking ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about the state hacking of EncroChat cryptophones is constitutional.
For messaging apps, that would mean letting end-to-end encrypted services like WhatsApp mingle with less secure protocols like SMS.
The Opinion of a Commission review board about proposal for a ‘Legislation to effectively tackle child sexual abuse’ shows strong concerns.
The messaging app’s Russian-born co-founder says: “Privacy is sacred – now more than ever”.
European law-enforcement agencies have been pushing to end encryption and survey everyone’s online communications.
The next German government intends to speak more strongly in favour of end-to-end encryption and against the introduction of backdoors.
Facebook has delayed a rollout of encrypted messaging amid fears such a move could put children at greater risk of exploitation and abuse.
More than a dozen prominent cybersecurity experts criticized plans by Apple and the European Union to monitor people’s phones for illicit material.
WhatsApp is allowing users to encrypt their backed-up chats, making them unreadable without access to a password or 64-digit encryption key.
Legislators want a form of encryption that can be stripped away whenever the government wants access to communications. It means backdoor.
WhatsApp said users will soon be able to store end-to-end encrypted backups of their chat history on Google Drive or iCloud.
Belgian Council of State confirmed a decision of the regional Flemish Authorities to contract with an EU branch of a U.S. company using Amazon Web Services (“AWS”).