European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli has expressed favor for strong encryption and against the use of backdoors within the revised ePrivacy law in his published opinion on the ePrivacy Directive on July 25, Ars Technica reports. “Decryption, reverse engineering or monitoring of communications protected by encryption should be prohibited,” Buttarelli wrote. “In addition, the use of end-to-end encryption should also be encouraged and when necessary, mandated, in accordance with the principle of data protection by design.” He also maintained that the law’s encryption protections should include over-the-top service providers in addition to “publicly available electronic communication services,” the report states.
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