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http://www.greens-efa.eu/software-procurement-11372.html
Software procurement
Greens/EFA group engages trustworthy email encryption in response
to mass surveillance revelations
The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament has announced its
decision to engage trustworthy email encryption based on free software.
Commenting on the revelation, Greens/EFA co-president *Rebecca Harms* said:
/"The world has had its eyes opened to the mass surveillance of the
digital realm. The commercial and governmental surveillance revealed by
Edward Snowden is undermining trust in our democratic institutions and
the democratic process. As a small but concrete step in response to
this, the Greens/EFA group is joining in a small free software project
to use trustworthy email encryption. /
/"This encryption system aims to ensure that nobody but the intended
recipient of an email can read it. The emails need to be encrypted,
sent, and then be decrypted on the receiving computer and nowhere else,
using a selection of free software from Debian. We will start small
scale, with 10 regular consumer laptops. This is not special hardware
running special software but general computers running software
available for everybody."/
