Question about legal pressure and privacy protections (in light of recent news)

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Hi everyone,

I recently read a blog post by Proton discussing legal pressure reportedly applied to GrapheneOS in France, related to potential requirements that could affect platform security or privacy - GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption | Proton .

This made me curious in a more general sense:
Could smaller or independent mobile platforms like Sailfish OS/Jolla theoretically face similar legal or regulatory pressures within the EU?

I’m not suggesting this is happening, and I appreciate Jolla’s ongoing commitment to user privacy and transparency. I’m mainly interested in understanding:

  • How Sailfish OS approaches privacy and security when operating under EU jurisdiction

  • Whether there are public principles or policies describing how Jolla would respond to requests that could weaken platform security

  • How users should think about jurisdiction-related risks in general

If anyone from Jolla or the community has insights, links, or previous discussions on this topic, I’d be grateful.

Thanks for your time, and apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere.

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Could. But as the article you link makes clear, the french national assembly rejected breaking e2e encryption. Graphene is acting ‘proactively’ and have not been forced by the assembly or eu regulations to do anything.

It is clear that we need to keep up pressure on the parliments, national and eu, to ensure that none of them takes that turn. Support https://www.laquadrature.net/ https://netzpolitik.org or any of the excellent efforts to keep the discussion alive, information current and pressure on the law makers.

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