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Legislative proposals should avoid simply shifting responsibility from the app developer who knows their customer and content best to the app stores that distribute them.
Today, the European Commission issued its first fines under the controversial Digital Markets Act.
These couple weeks have proven to be a powerful reminder of the power of encrypted messaging apps, and the equally significant harm to national security when someone unwittingly gains access to important private conversations.
The need for the world’s leading executives and government national security experts to weigh in on non-security “civil” legislation stands on its own as an imperative.
The Washington Post reported in February that the U.K. government issued a “secret order” that “demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.”
While the immediate order is centered on Apple’s cloud data, the U.K.’s order for blanket access to encrypted material raises broader questions about its applicability to other companies and its potential to undermine end-to-end encryption, a critical tool businesses and consumers broadly rely upon today to keep their devices, services and data safe.
By any account, the transatlantic relationship appears to be at a low point. From trade and economics to matters of war and peace, the United States and Europe are in an apparent period of disunity not seen in decades.
However, there is one area where there appears to be more alignment than one might expect: cybersecurity.
As we warned they might do, today, under the guise of advancing interoperability, EU regulators have taken another major step backwards when it comes to
If you don’t like prying eyes, but want secure data, listen up. The UK government has ordered a US Tech company to create a backdoor in its cloud infrastructure, weakening end-to-end encryption, the very technology that keeps your data safe. This isn’t just a UK issue.
The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom Government has secretly ordered Apple to weaken end-to-end encryption for data stored in iCloud, forcing the company to create a backdoor to its fully encrypted data. Once a backdoor is created, it can be exploited by anyone who finds it. If the reporting is accurate, it represents an incredibly dangerous overreach that threatens to put the security of millions of people’s data at risk.
Many people may have missed it, but just ahead of the holidays, the European Commission proposed specific new interoperability mandates under the Digital Markets Act