Weakening End-to-End Encryption Considered Harmful

Rashid, Awais and May-Chahal, Corinne and Peersman, Claudia (2025) Weakening End-to-End Encryption Considered Harmful. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, 23 (3). pp. 51-54. ISSN 1540-7993

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Abstract

Recent years have seen intense debates regarding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) driven by regulatory proposals in the U.K. and EU to monitor E2EE communications in order to detect and prevent online child sex abuse. We discuss the key issues and tensions at play and the harmful impacts of such proposals. Weakening E2EE will not address the root causes of online child sex abuse and result in not only violating the privacy of the population at large but also of the young people whom such proposals aim to protect in the first instance.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Research Output Funding/yes_externally_funded

Subjects:

?? encryptiononline harmyes - externally fundednocomputer networks and communicationslawelectrical and electronic engineeringcyber ??

Departments:

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Sociology

ID Code:

231226

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

31 Jul 2025 08:55

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

01 Aug 2025 02:04

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/231226