State secrets are to governments as private keys are to software engineers, except it's much slower to change meatspace things like (to make up a fictional example) the gaps your military found in their CIWS naval defence system, which if leaked means your enemies now know know how to exploit in order to wipe out your navy.
It may cause corruption, because despite lawmaker's attempts to carve out security*- and governance-critical communications, it's almost impossible for this tech to fail to open doors to blackmailers.
But existing corruption is neither necessary nor sufficient for what we see here. Wrong axis.
EU is (mostly, and relatively speaking) un-corrupt as governments go; more corrupt places (and also authoritarian places) will write fantastic laws that they just straight-up ignore.
* Which won't work anyway: consider that the US military had to issue statements and bans because fitbit was revealing too much about military bases.
So it's ok if the database containing my nudes leaks, but not if it contains state secrets? I feel really protected!
State secrets are to governments as private keys are to software engineers, except it's much slower to change meatspace things like (to make up a fictional example) the gaps your military found in their CIWS naval defence system, which if leaked means your enemies now know know how to exploit in order to wipe out your navy.
Not saying that I agree, just saying that I can imagine it's not done in bad faith.
It's totally done in bad faith, corruption is a real thing in EU politics.
It may cause corruption, because despite lawmaker's attempts to carve out security*- and governance-critical communications, it's almost impossible for this tech to fail to open doors to blackmailers.
But existing corruption is neither necessary nor sufficient for what we see here. Wrong axis.
EU is (mostly, and relatively speaking) un-corrupt as governments go; more corrupt places (and also authoritarian places) will write fantastic laws that they just straight-up ignore.
* Which won't work anyway: consider that the US military had to issue statements and bans because fitbit was revealing too much about military bases.