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“This draft included a passage that would have forced companies such as WhatsApp and Signal to decrypt their encrypted chats upon request by the authorities for criminal investigation.”

Hannatutanota.com ↗

Belgium wanted messaging apps to switch off encryption for any user the police named. There is no such switch. It means building a second, breakable system and lying to users about the first one. Cryptographers and providers pushed back and the passage died. It will come back under a new name. It always does.