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petre • yesterday at 3:45 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

It's linked in the second paragraph of article.

  More effective tools for law enforcement and stronger JHA agencies

  Law enforcement needs the right tools to be effective. And with 85% of criminal investigations relying on digital information, this includes lawful access to data:

  …
  · A Roadmap on lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement,
  · A Technology Roadmap on encryption, and an impact assessment with a view to updating the EU's data retention rules.
This is pushing for encryption backdoors in eurocrat speech: lawful access to data, roadmap, impact assesment, updating rules.

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trinsic2 • yesterday at 11:54 PM

> lawful access

I have heard this term used before. I think in the chat control stuff.

Its a red herring term. More like unlawful access and they don't want people to suspect that they are trying to illegally break and harm communications

microtonal • yesterday at 3:59 PM

What you are citing from is an older press release from April 2025.

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yyny • yesterday at 4:29 PM

"Law enforcement need lawful ways to enter a home"

"See! The government is trying to pick all our locks"

Okay dude. Taking off the tinfoil hat for a second here, but maybe they're just trying to do the thing they say they are doing, namely, lessen friction to obtain things like camera footage, financial data, and internet usage.

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