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Weakening End-to-End Encryption Considered Harmful

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>30/06/2025
<mark>Journal</mark>IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
Issue number3
Volume23
Number of pages4
Pages (from-to)51-54
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date12/05/25
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Recent years have seen intense debates regarding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) driven by regulatory proposals in the U.K. and EU to monitor E2EE communications in order to detect and prevent online child sex abuse. We discuss the key issues and tensions at play and the harmful impacts of such proposals. Weakening E2EE will not address the root causes of online child sex abuse and result in not only violating the privacy of the population at large but also of the young people whom such proposals aim to protect in the first instance.