France and Germany have started a campaign aimed at compromising the security of mobile terminals of European users, they are also demanding a special law from the EU. More precisely, the ministers of the two countries want the EU to promulgate a law that obliges the companies that own messaging applications to decrypt the messages and provide them to the authorities.
Everything is based on the terrorist threat and the fact that terrorists use messaging applications to plan attacks, the messages being encrypted and, theoretically, impossible for the authorities to access. In this idea, France and Germany want the EU to adopt a law that obliges companies to decrypt these messages so that they can be analyzed and terrorist attacks prevented.
WhatsApp Messenger si Telegram are mentioned by the interior ministers of Germany and France as impossible to access applications, making anti-terrorist investigations difficult. The demands of the Europeans are similar to those of the American authorities, the governments wanting access to all the data in order to surveil the whole world.
The terrorist attacks in France and Germany are the basis of these requests, and this is because the terrorists mainly used the Telegram application, but this is only one of those used. Unfortunately, terrorists hide behind these applications to destroy the lives of many people, and everyone's safety is at risk at the moment.
"If such legislation were adopted, it would allow us to force operators who do not cooperate to help us in investigations. Security is a national competence, but the creation of a set of laws at the European level will help the member states to protect their citizens more effectively."
The representatives of the two countries want effective methods of monitoring certain people to be offered through these applications, recognizing at the same time the need to protect user data. Although many people demand laws of this kind, it is unlikely that they will be adopted too soon, regardless of the threat.
