The fight to protect encryption just got a boost in a ruling about Telegram and Russia ( fortune.com ) Englisch

The fight to protect end-to-end encryption is a never-ending one, and it’s seen some setbacks in recent months, most notably the passage in the U.K. of the Online Safety Act, which (theoretically, for now) empowers the government there to order communications providers like Signal or WhatsApp to bypass the strong encryption on their messages.

Well, here’s some good news for those who are keen on protecting their messages from prying eyes. The European Court of Human Rights said today that, while security services may want to decrypt some people’s communications to fight crime, weakening encryption for some people means weakening it for all—and that would violate human rights law (specifically, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to privacy).

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punlex ,

This is not true, Telegram agreed to cooperate with Russian authorities, Durov met with Russian authorities on this issue, also Russian laws oblige everyone to give out encryption keys, who does not give out will be blocked forever, like Tutanota or Proton, what Telegram did was a PR campaign, Durov is cooperating with Russia.

Haven5341 OP ,

This is not true,

If this isn't true, than why is there a judgment from the ECHR on this case? Do you have any proof for your claim?

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-230854%22]}

gravitas_deficiency ,

I too am interested in seeing corroboration of their claim.

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