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European court favors strong encryption, calling it key to privacy rights

While some American officials continue to attack strong encryption as an enabler of child abuse and other crimes, a key European court has upheld it as fundamental to the basic right to privacy.The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights has no effect in the United States; only the 46 European countries that signed the European Convention on Human Rights are subject to the court’s jurisdiction.Still, the decision might ease pressure on U.S.-based social media companies to provide workaround...

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