SecureWorld reported earlier this month, that a group of world governments known as Five Eyes (this includes the U.S.) continues pushing for access to our private and encrypted data in criminal investigations.
These governments believe "privacy is not absolute" and that some sort of backdoor should be created to allow them to break through encryption.
The debate is often framed as a "criminals vs. crime fighters" argument.
However, we just read a first-hand argument in favor of encryption and privacy that was quite intriguing.
It was written by an attorney Robyn Green at the Open Technology Institute. Here's how her story starts:
"I had just left a meeting at the Justice Department and stopped at a nearby coffee shop with colleagues for a debrief and to gab. As I was gathering my things to leave, I reached for my phone to make a call, only to realize: someone at the coffee shop had taken my phone. By the time I knew my phone was gone, the thief had turned it off, so I couldn’t use the “Find My Phone” feature to locate or erase my device."
Read the rest of her story in the Washington Post and see if you think of the encryption debate any differently after her first-hand account.
