The European Parliament's (EP’s) Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs released a draft proposal for a new Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications. The draft recommends a regulation that will enforce end-to-end encryption on all communications to protect European Union citizens’ fundamental privacy rights. The committee also recommended a ban on backdoors.
Enforcement Of EU’s Charter Of Fundamental Rights
Article 7 of the E.U.’s Charter of Fundamental Rights says that E.U. citizens have a right to personal privacy, as well as privacy in their family life and at home. According to the EP committee, the privacy of communications between individuals is also an important dimension of this right.
As soon as they invoked Article 50, they lost their seat at the decision-making table. I suspect that the above is only being proposed now because they know that the Brits can't block it anymore.
Do not get you hopes too much up. The parliament has limited authority compared to other executive branches like the commission (which i expect will resist - especially with their whole " european security" increase goals). And UK is was not the only member state that lobbied for extra surveillance. It might take a long way to get this passed into actual law, if ever, no matter how sensible it is.
One week: we need to be able to spy on everything everyone said because terrorism/child porn/drugs/arms trading/any other reason you can imagine like changing the weather or some other bullshit.
Next week: everyone needs to have encryption for their own protection.
Madness, but the EU in a nutshell. We just take out of it what ever we want to hear and that works because they have said it all, so can always quote their own words back to them.