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Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device (bleepingcomputer.com)
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: German authorities are preparing a law that will force device manufacturers to include backdoors within their products that law enforcement agencies could use at their discretion for legal investigations. The law would target all modern devices, such as cars, phones, computers, IoT products, and more. Officials are expected to submit their proposed law for debate this week, according to local news outlet RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). The man supporting this proposal is Thomas de Maiziere, Germany's Interior Minister, who cites the difficulty law enforcement agents have had in past months investigating the recent surge of terrorist attacks and other crimes.
This is the ultimate purpose behind placing ISPs under Title II in order to place them under CALEA requirements which could easily be interpreted to require exactly the same kind of 'back doors' on devices.
And of course any such interpretation would be factually incorrect.
CALEA was applied to ISPs in 2005. Title II classification would not arrive for another decade.
CALEA applies to telecommunications service providers only. It does not apply to software and hardware vendors. It does not compel service providers to hand over keys they don't have or restrict the activities of users. It does not mandate the installation of back doors into anything except the infrastructure of telecommunications service providers.
The propaganda has worked so well we have people violently protesting to have their own privacy taken away.
At least get your facts straight before posting provably false information. There are plenty of valid reasons to disapprove of CALEA and criticize U.S. government for it.