Encryption backdoors violate human rights, EU court rules

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that enabling governments to access everyone's encrypted messages is a human rights violation. It probably won't stop them from continuing to try, though.In a 27-page judgement on Tuesday, the ECHR found that Russian legislation concerning online messaging services breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to privacy. The case was brought by a Russian Telegram user who objected to laws requiring messa