VIENNA - Austria’s coalition government has agreed on a plan to enable police to monitor suspects’ secure messaging in order to thwart militant attacks, ending what security officials have said is a rare and dangerous blind spot for a European Union country.
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Right; so anyone using Apple Messages or WhatsApp or Signal still has private messaging; it’s those message apps that only encrypt in transit that are leaving data exposed to authorities. Personally, I don’t have an issue with that like I do with EU chat control. But it’s mostly performative.
Yeah it’s basically just a legal way for them to introduce it as evidence since intelligence agencies spy on shit either way.