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Title: Austrian Government Agrees On Plan To Allow Monitoring of Secure
Messaging

Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/18/193021...

Austria's coalition government has agreed on a plan to enable police to
monitor suspects' secure messaging in order to thwart militant attacks,
ending what security officials have said is a rare and dangerous blind spot
for a European Union country. From a report: Because Austria lacks a legal
framework for monitoring messaging services like WhatsApp, its main domestic
intelligence service and police rely on allies with far more sweeping powers
like Britain and the United States alerting them to chatter about planned
attacks and spying. That kind of tip-off led to police unravelling what they
say was a planned attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, which prompted
the cancellation of all three of her planned shows there in August of last
year. "The aim is to make people planning terrorist attacks in Austria feel
less secure - and increase everyone else's sense of security," Joerg
Leichtfried of the Social Democrats, the junior minister in charge of
overseeing the Directorate for State Security and Intelligence (DSN), told a
news conference.

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