> Private companies that wish to ensure their services are used in compliance with the law also have an important role to play. They must ensure that their platforms are not safe havens for criminals and should provide mechanisms for lawful data access under judicial oversight and in full respect of fundamental rights.
Last six words are a lie. Or if you want to be generous: nothing more than paying lip service.
What I fail to understand is why criminals keep using these niche tools.
Just throwing an idea out there :
Criminal organizations are essentially child labour organizations. And not the smartest kids, low IQ, low education, poor risk assessment kids.
Similar to what the crypto community looks for, they also need ready to use, pre-made usable tools that are essentially fool proof.
Ready-to-use encryption networks that have no obvious ties to law enforcement are necessarily niche.
If they were to require each criminal cell to solder their own encryption devices and load some secure firmware and verify it, they would end up opening cellphone repair shops, not drug slinging operations.
