What now for encryption?
The FBI confirmed that it wanted “legal access” to be fully encrypted the data, which includes end -to -end -to -end messages and iPhone and Android backups. “Access to digital evidence and information on online threats,” he says, “is essential for the police to end threats, stop criminals and protect victims.”
Such access would be justified by a court order. Currently, this is not possible, because technological companies such as Apple, Google and Meta cannot access your fully encrypted content even if it is ordered by a court. This is why the office refers to this as an encryption to the test of guarantees, What he warns “Is a major public security problem with real world impacts on American families.”
It is not a stolen door, The office says. “Users already trust these companies to maintain exclusive access to their operating systems and to private keys controlling their communication devices and systems.” And the office says it is not alone in this area. Many other countries, “including the United Kingdom, Australia, India and Brazil, have or are looking for or are looking for similar executives to combat legal access.”
It is this type of arrangement that triggered the action of the Apple court against the British government, after it was well condemned that it was secretly ordered to open iPhone backups to iCloud to such justified access. The confidentiality against the action of the United Kingdom has been well documented, And the implications are frightening.
The United States is not yet moving towards such new regulations, leaving the United Kingdom and now Europe first. Monday, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) warned The European Union, it is “deeply concerned about the continuous emphasis of the Commission on the identification of the means of weakening or bypassing encryption … Softing encryption weakens the very foundations of communications and secure systems, leaving individuals, businesses and public institutions more vulnerable to attacks”.
This follows the launch of Protection“A European internal security strategy to support Member States and strengthen EU capacity to guarantee the security of its citizens”, including “a roadmap on lawful and effective access to data for law application”.
EVP of the EU for technological sovereignty, Henné Virkkunen, echoes the encryption warnings of the FBI. “The problem is that our police have lost ground because of criminals because our police investigators do not have access today. This is a big problem because we have identified that in about 85% of surveys, we should have access to data … It is something that we cannot tolerate, we cannot take care of security because we do not have the tools to work in this digital world.
Any solution that works around end -to -end encryption is created from end -to -end encryption. And the security on which we all count to protect the content has never been so threatened. “Government agencies elsewhere in the world [should] Actively encourage greater use of end -to -end encryption, no less, “said CDT,” to protect the integrity of cyberspace from increased security threats “.
As WhatsApp – one of the main defenders of the world for end -to -end encryption launches its biggest marketing campaign, which focuses on this even encryptionThe battle lines are traced. It is a Big Tech battle cannot afford to lose.
