Article is from a renowned german IT centric media outlet. Topic is a new ruling that allows for government spying through trojan horses on the press. This ruling is highly alarming.
Thats bad!
It is still also important to call out who it really is - the governments of all memberstates who are in the Council of the EU - not the “EU” as such. Lets hope the EU Parliament doesn’t get forward with it - with a bit of noise and preassure they are often more willing to do the right thing
The consequences would be devastating. Noone who would reach out to Journalists to uncover corruption, severe economic crime and other cases with government involvement, would be safe to do so.
This would seriously harm democracy and incentivise relentless abuse of power and crime from and through governmental institutions.
Its so fascinating how our EU can switch between fucking good decisions and fucking terrible decisions all the time. I hope this will be avoided by the parliament
Especially when it comes to “security” laws, the EU often seems to be on a concerning track, while it seems to have good ideas for many other areas (consumer protection for example). Does someone have a good explanation for this phenomenon?
Paternalism
You cannot restrict and reduce restriction at the same time. Instead just restrict everyone, for their own safety.
In multiple ways, contrary to the US and I think the EU is currently doing the best job of them all.
I mean you can totally not try to end P2P encryption or allow espionage against journalists by gov agencies. There is nothing power hunger driving them to do so
I don’t quite understand. Would journalists be forced to install state-created spyware on their work machines?
No they do not have to install them by themselves but goverment intelligence agencies or police may use them against journalists.
OK, so a journalist who is technically knowledgeable might evade this altogether.
You can never have 100% security. And tbf I dont think this is a valuable argument if its about basic freedom of media to not fucking spy on journalists.
yada yada freedom yada yada democracy yada yada western values yada yada blah blah blaaaaahh
