{"id":31481,"date":"2021-01-28T16:32:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31481"},"modified":"2021-01-28T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:32:34","slug":"protonmail-opposes-eu-golden-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/protonmail-opposes-eu-golden-key\/","title":{"rendered":"ProtonMail Opposes EU Golden Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/protonmail.com\/blog\/joint-statement-eu-encryption\/\">ProtonMail<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25940566\">Hacker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25940670\">News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/protonmail.com\/blog\/joint-statement-eu-encryption\/\"><p>In December 2020, The Council of the European Union released a five-page resolution that called for the EU to pass new rules to govern the use of end-to-end encryption in Europe. We strongly oppose this resolution because it foreshadows an <a href=\"https:\/\/protonmail.com\/blog\/eu-attack-on-encryption\/\">attack on encryption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>While it&rsquo;s not explicitly stated in the resolution, it&rsquo;s widely understood that the proposal seeks to allow law enforcement access to encrypted platforms via backdoors. However, the resolution makes a fundamental misunderstanding: encryption is an absolute. Data is either encrypted or it isn&rsquo;t; users have privacy, or they don&rsquo;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/attorney-general-william-barr-on-encryption-policy\/\">Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/12\/australian-assistance-and-access-act\/\">Australian Assistance and Access Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/fbi-asks-apple-for-secure-golden-key\/\">FBI Asks Apple for Secure Golden Key<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/secure-golden-key\/\">Secure Golden Key<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProtonMail (via Hacker News): In December 2020, The Council of the European Union released a five-page resolution that called for the EU to pass new rules to govern the use of end-to-end encryption in Europe. We strongly oppose this resolution because it foreshadows an attack on encryption. [&#8230;] While it&rsquo;s not explicitly stated in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-28T21:32:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"f0bcd2e5-a5ec-46b6-be2e-2f8702090bdb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-28T21:32:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8LzS5aXsRra-Li-HAgkL2w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1927,209,355,1435,96],"class_list":["post-31481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-european-union","tag-legal","tag-privacy","tag-protonmail","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31482,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481\/revisions\/31482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}