The European Comission is looking for feedback on forcing retention of metadata from all communication services for "a reasonable period of time", for purposes of criminal investigation! Which means encrypted messaging without a backdoor would be illegal if this passes! That's a slippery slope! That basically means an attacker with some skill could read any data from anyone (correct me if I'm wrong but I think you can infer the content from the metadata in 90% of cases) For more detail on why it's bad, click the link below and read literally any feedback comment. Go ahead and give some feedback! You can do so even if you are not an EU citizen! [https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-/_en](https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-_en) [@soatok](https://furry.engineer/@soatok) [@echo\_pbreyer](https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer) [@privacy](https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy) [@technology](https://lemmy.world/c/technology) [\#Europe](https://furries.club/tags/Europe) [#privacy](https://furries.club/tags/privacy) [#encryption](https://furries.club/tags/encryption)