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That’s what Robin Wilton, director of internet trust at the Internet Society, told us when we spoke recently about the state of E2EE in light of Europol becoming the latest international law enforcement group to urge regulators and tech giants to ditch the practice.

Law enforcement argues this leaves them unable to shut down serious crime – from human trafficking and drug smuggling, to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) production – because investigators can’t intercept and pore over people’s communications.

“If you look back to about 2015 and look at the proliferation of available end-to-end encrypted messaging services and apps since then … somehow the number of arrests for illegal images [should] have dropped off the cliff,” Wilton said.

In other words, the cops haven’t shown that encryption has impeded crime solving.

The claims made by Europol were “a lot of statements and assertions, but pretty thin on evidence,” Wilton said.

“Think of the number of connected things that we’re surrounded by now,” Wilton told us, adding that widespread use of E2EE is a necessity in the modern world.

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