The European Union is considering to officially forbid the implementation of the so-called “backdoors”. These backdoors allow infiltrating encrypted communications. Thus the banning of these backdoors would interfere with the desire of UK government to gain access to ever secure communication.
The draft report by the European parliament’s committee states that the data protection regulations have not maintained the progress with advances in technology. Furthermore, it says that amendments were required in the 2002 regulation on privacy and electronic communications (ePrivacy).
These amendments were proposed by the European Commission in January. They are now reviewed by the European Parliament and part of the amendments look to deal with over-the-top services (OTT services). These services depict the functionality of traditional communications systems like the landline telephones. However, they are not regulated in a similar way and thus they do not afford similar protections as well.
For instance, different methods were sought by the UK government to become accessible to encrypted communications. The UK government desired to infiltrate the encrypted messaging feature, like the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) that prohibits the interception of private messages, currently utilized by and Signal.
