It’s always an interesting moment when a government announces it’s going to protect your privacy by finding new ways to destroy it. That’s the high-wire act currently underway in Brussels, where EU officials have unveiled a roadmap that reads like a blueprint for turning digital locks into decorative suggestions.
The plan, part of the Commission’s upliftingly titled ProtectEU agenda, promises to give police the tools they need to decrypt your private communications, legally of course, by the end of the decade. Nothing says modern European values like borderless surveillance and continent-wide data taps.
The show began officially on June 24, when the Commission took the stage with a document that pretends it’s solving a problem but reads more like a wish list from the We Hate Encryption Department of Europol.
It’s a six-pronged state-sponsored ambition to pry open whatever you thought was locked tight. And it’s got a name that would make a Bond villain blush: the Going Dark mandate.
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