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EU wants internet firms to hand over encryption keys

22 January 2015

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"A top EU official wants internet and telecommunication companies to hand over encryption keys to police and spy agencies as part of a wider crackdown on terrorism. The EU’s counter-terrorism co-ordinator Gilles de Kerchove, in a document leaked by London-based civil liberties group Statewatch, says the European Commission should come up with rules that require the firms to help national governments snoop on possible suspects."

See the article: EU wants internet firms to hand over encryption keys (euobserver, link)

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