Laws that you cannot enforce without looking at people’s private communications are, in my mind, very likely to be laws that should probably not exist anyway in a free society. Crimes that actually harmed another person have, you know, a victim who can testify to the police or in court that the crime happened, and if you have that, what do you need to look at encrypted communications for?

The National Assembly killed it, with the Macronist deputies, the left, and even the Rassemblement National voting it down.

huh, at least one good thing happening somewhere in the world

This is why I don’t trust French tech.