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Chiara Castro

France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision

View on National Assembly building in Paris, France, with French and European flags flying.

Digital privacy advocates saved encryption in France last week, yet again, as MPs finally rejected a controversial provision to create a backdoor for law enforcement.

The infamous Article 8 of the proposed Drug Trafficking Act – which is currently passing to the country's National Assembly – would have required all encrypted messaging apps and secure email services to decrypt user data upon an authority's request.

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