American Tech Giants Face Fight in Europe Over Encrypted Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/technology/american-tech-giants-face-fight-in-europe-over-encrypted-data.html
This week, French lawmakers are expected to debate proposals to
toughen laws, giving intelligence services greater power to get
access to personal data. The battle has pitted Europe's fears
about the potential for further attacks against concerns from
Apple and other American technology giants like Google and
Facebook that weakening encryption technologies may create
so-called back doors to people's digital information that could
be misused by European law enforcement officials, or even
intelligence agencies of unfriendly countries. The recent
attacks have pushed many Europeans to favor greater powers for
law enforcement over privacy. But opponents say such measures
should not undermine the region's tough data protection rules
that enshrine privacy on par with other rights like freedom of
expression. This balance between national security and privacy
has put major countries in the region on opposite sides of the
debate, with Germany and the Netherlands dismissing new
encryption laws being considered by Britain and France.
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