The EU’s HLG (High Level Group) now considers VPNs among “key challenges” to investigative work.
End-to-end encryption is also mentioned in the final report as the biggest technical challenge
Experts are calling for restraint and consideration on the measures, fearing civilians will carry “state spyware in their pockets”
The internet isn’t what turned everything to shit. That was capitalism. Technology of and by itself is never evil, but of course there’s always tons of people ready to use it for evil purposes. Our current ‘big bad’ is still simply capitalism though.
Our form of capitalism is driven by technology
No. Capitalists use technology to further their goals. Technology has no agency, makes no decisions, and is not a philosophy. It is literally just knowledge. Capitalism and human bad actors are literally the problem as they have been for all of recorded history. This is also seen in other primate species like baboons who are able to live relatively peaceful and low-stress lives when they organize in cooperative, pro-social troops.