There are no plans to require back doors in communications encryption in Europe, according to European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip. Proposals for mandatory encryption workarounds for mobile devices in the U.S. are the subject of a heated debate.

“In the European Commission we never had, and we don’t have, any kind of plans to create back doors,” Ansip told the European Parliament on Tuesday.

“We don’t want to destroy people’s trust by creating some back doors,” he said, adding that if there were back doors then sooner or later somebody would misuse them.

Ansip was responding to worries voiced by Kaja Kallas, an Estonian Member of the European Parliament (MEP). “People trust each other more than ever by sharing their cars, by sharing their flats, but also by sharing content and accessing content online. But they also need to know their communication is secure,” she told Ansip, adding that back doors in encryption software would greatly undermine the trust in e-commerce and the economy overall.

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