Article is from a renowned german IT centric media outlet. Topic is a new ruling that allows for government spying through trojan horses on the press. This ruling is highly alarming.
yada yada freedom yada yada democracy yada yada western values yada yada blah blah blaaaaahh
I don’t quite understand. Would journalists be forced to install state-created spyware on their work machines?
No they do not have to install them by themselves but goverment intelligence agencies or police may use them against journalists.
OK, so a journalist who is technically knowledgeable might evade this altogether.
Fuck no
Thats bad!
It is still also important to call out who it really is - the governments of all memberstates who are in the Council of the EU - not the “EU” as such. Lets hope the EU Parliament doesn’t get forward with it - with a bit of noise and preassure they are often more willing to do the right thing
The consequences would be devastating. Noone who would reach out to Journalists to uncover corruption, severe economic crime and other cases with government involvement, would be safe to do so.
This would seriously harm democracy and incentivise relentless abuse of power and crime from and through governmental institutions.
