The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe

EFF joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in a letter urging the European Commission to change course on its "Technology Roadmap on Encryption," part of the EU's ProtectEU strategy. The letter argues that no technical "lawful access" to end-to-end encrypted messages preserves security and privacy, and that circumvention methods such as client-side scanning create new vulnerabilities. It also calls on EU officials to scrap any roadmap focused on circumvention and to invest instead in stronger, more widespread use of end-to-end encryption.