Stop EU's eIDAS Article 45 proposal!

The EU strikes once again, this time with a proposal to force browsers to go through EU-approved certificate authorities and cryptographic keys which allows governments to intercept HTTP(S) traffic of all european citizens. The middle man here would be ETSI, EU's IT standards body, which has a worrysome track record of creating compromised cryptographic standards and working with organizations involved in intercepting communications through backdoors.

To know more about this and to try stopping it, check the following links:

• last-chance-for-eidas.org which is an open letter by Mozilla explaining the whole situation with extra links in it;
• eidas-open-letter.org which is an open letter made by researchers and NGOs;
• this article from ComputerWeekly that does an in depth explaination of the proposal;
• this article from Jeremiah Lee which gives you a quick link to email Romana Jerković, the MEP responsible for eIDAS, and a link to contact your country's MEPs;
• this video by Niccolò Venerandi (YouTube, PeerTube) talking in depth about the whole situation.