Privacy's Defenders Podcast: No Privacy Without Encryption
When we communicate online today – from your personal emails and DMs to secure international commerce – we usually do so with encryption. Encryption converts readable data into unreadable gibberish to protect our privacy and security. This didn’t just happen organically. Three decades ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon, and it took some unlikely heroes to set it free: a grad student, a junior lawyer, and a fledgling digital rights group who sued the federal government. The ruling in Bernstein v. Department of Justice held that code is speech and so is protected by the Fi…
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · Compliance · General readers · Policy
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