InfoSec News Nuggets 2/16/2024

  European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights – a decision that may derail European data surveillance legislation known as Chat Control. The Court issued a decision on Tuesday stating that "the contested legislation providing for the retention of all internet communications of all users, the security services’ direct…
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