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Law demanding companies to provide encrypted data
New proposals in the French Parliament will mandate tech companies to give decrypted messages, email. If businesses don’t comply, heavy fines will be imposed.
France has proposed a law requiring end-to-end encryption messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal, and encrypted email services like Proton Mail to give law enforcement agencies access to decrypted data on demand.
The move comes after France’s proposed “Narcotraffic” bill, asking tech companies to hand over encrypted chats of suspected criminals within 72 hours.
The law has stirred debates in the tech community and civil society groups because it may lead to building of “backdoors” in encrypted devices that can be abused by threat actors and state-sponsored criminals.
Individuals failing to comply will face fines of €1.5m and companies may lose up to 2% of their annual world turnover in case they are not able to hand over encrypted communications to the government.
Criminals will exploit backdoors
Few experts believe it is not possible to bring backdoors into encrypted communications without weakening their security.
According to Computer Weekly’s report, Matthias Pfau, CEO of Tuta Mail, a German encrypted m
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