> Introducing 'backdoors' to break encryption fundamentally undermines the very cybersecurity principles ProtectEU aims to uphold. End-to-end encryption remains essential for safeguarding sensitive personal data, critical infrastructure such as banks and hospitals, and indeed our overall security. Creating backdoors in encryption would expose these systems to vulnerabilities, risking exploitation by hackers, criminals, or hostile authoritarian states.

> Weakening encryption could even directly conflict with our ambition to grow European technology companies. Much of our lives are now lived or managed online; strong encryption is critical for businesses and consumers who trust platforms with their data. Weakening encryption would damage the EU’s credibility as a secure hub for tech innovation. We talk extensively about technological sovereignty these days, yet we continue to hinder our own progress toward achieving it.

It's refreshing to read something from an EU official (Aura Salla, Finnish MEP in this case) that actually makes sense for once.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aurasalla_csam-protecteu-cybe...

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