EU Discusses Steps Against Encrypted Data

The European Union announced on Monday, that it is paving the way for a move against data that has received blanket encryption after a series of terrorist attacks in Paris, Vienna and Nice.

The interior affairs ministers from EU member states called on heads of state to consider the data encryption issue, so that digital evidence can be collected and used legally by the competent authorities, according a joint statement issued earlier this month.

The statement came after the leak of several internal EU documents on coding, and it was the first documents it published by Politico Magazine Originally, it was concerned with establishing measures against end-to-end encryption as a means of combating child abuse.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in the European Union have long sought a more equitable balance between privacy and the ability of police agencies to do their jobs, An EU spokesman reported.

Moreover, Messages sent using this tool are encrypted before they leave the sender’s phone or computer, with a key unique to the devices at either end of an exchange. Even if they are intercepted during transmission by a hacker or a government agency, the messages are unreadable, since the only devices able to decode them are those belonging to the sender and the intended recipient.

On other hand, Alex Clarkson, a lecturer in German and European international studies at King’s College London, noted that measures like those being discussed have been an ongoing part of the agenda for governments for a while.