Europol now latest cops to beg Big Tech to ditch E2EE

Europol and European police chiefs, in cooperation with the UK NCA, issued a declaration urging the tech industry to preserve lawful access and detection capabilities for illegal content, arguing Meta’s end-to-end encryption rollout hampers investigations; Meta counters that backdoors or client-side scanning erode trust and security and that it can mitigate abuse without weakening encryption. The piece highlights an ongoing policy clash over E2EE rather than detailing a specific cyber incident.