Interoperable means that users from different communication services can communicate with one another.įrom a basic use case perspective, end-to-end encrypted group chats have been supported for years by many services and protocols including WhatsApp, Matrix, XMPP, Wire, Signal, Threema and others. The servers relaying the conversation have no visibility of the content. Interoperable end-to-end encryption for group chatĮnd-to-end encryption means only the devices involved in a conversation can read it. The reason given is: “Interoperable end-to-end encrypted group chats are technically not feasible.” The latest position seems to be that whilst interoperability is still on the menu (which wasn’t necessarily the case a couple of weeks ago), and requiring end-to-end encryption to be preserved, it looks to have been limited to one-to-one interactions – leaving aside the far bigger chunk of group chats and calls. Targeted advertising, interoperability and adapting the regulation to the ever-moving digital markets are still the most controversial subjects but Andreas Schwab, the rapporteur for the act, is confident the deadline is achievable.

The French presidency has been pushing everyone hard to iron out the last disagreements in order to meet the self-set deadline of the end of March. The three main EU institutions are expected to meet next week for the 4th trilogue for the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

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