EU wants messaging systems to have mandatory end-to-end encryption. Proposed changes are meant to modernize EU e-privacy rights, in line with the stronger data privacy protections guaranteed by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation in May 2018. The proposals are part of a number of changes being put forward to update a 2002 EU electronic privacy directive, transforming it into a regulation that would take effect at the same time as the GDPR. Security experts have applauded the move to outlaw backdoors, but others are more circumspect.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/crypto-in-europe-battle-lines-drawn-a-10028