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EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2025-04-03

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Iain Thomson

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The European Commission’s ProtectEU plan proposes a roadmap for enabling lawful access to data—potentially impacting encryption—by 2025–2026, alongside establishing a Security Research & Innovation Campus in 2026 and deploying quantum cryptography by 2030. The initiative also seeks to strengthen Europol’s transnational crime capabilities, enhance cloud/datacenter security, and address supply-chain dependencies, while raising concerns about the security implications of potential encryption backdoors.

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