Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament to use Debian for email encryption

[Felix C. Stegerman]

Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament to use Debian for email
encryption
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Rebecca Harms [11], co-president of the Greens/EFA Group in the
European Parliament, announced a project to use trustworthy
encryption [12] in cooperation and dialogue with European
Parliament IT services and Debian. Recognising that we "live in a
digital environment polluted by pervasive surveillance", she sees
encrypted software as a small first step to ensure nobody but the
intended recipent of an email can read it. Greens/EFA will use a
selection of Free Software from Debian running on regular consumer
laptops. "As Greens in the European Parliament we are very pleased
that we are supported by Debian [...], a community of programmers
and developers abiding to a social contract [13] to share and
maintain their common resource which they call Free Software", she
said.
http://www.rebecca-harms.de/index.php/lesen/trustworthy-encryption-a-small-step-to-stop-the-pollution--32935

12: http://www.greens-efa.eu/software-procurement-11372.html

13: http://www.debian.org/social_contract

- - Felix

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Felix C. Stegerman
vice-coordinator, dutch fellowship group of fsfe

[Daniel Pocock]

Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament to use Debian for email
encryption

Does anybody know who has been working with them and are they also
looking at other things like encrypted VoIP?

Maybe they can use ZRTP with Jitsi and Lumicall or WebRTC too