“Recent media reports state that senior government officials in the US and EU agreed to cooperate on measures to shape public opinion with the goal of legitimising the demands of law enforcement agencies to access encrypted communications.”
The minutes of a March EU-US justice meeting in Stockholm show officials planning a PR campaign against encryption. Platforms that resist got called hypocrites in the room. Encryption covers over 90% of web traffic, and the CSAM directive and Online Safety Bill want a way in. Governments that cannot win the technical argument have moved on to marketing.