End-to-end encryption is a human right
A quick summary of an important judgment from Europe
On 13 February 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its judgment in a case concerning end-to-end encryption (E2EE). In short, it held that data acquisition orders requiring the decryption of communications protected by E2EE are unlawful.
The facts of the case are as follows:
In July 2017, the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia'…