UN rapporteur sticks up for crypto and anonymity

Cory Doctorow 6:00 am Tue Jun 2, 2015

Within days of David Cameron's Queen's Speech promise to ban the use of effective crypto in the UK, David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur for Freedom of Expression effectively called this a plan to make UK into a rogue state.

Kaye's report sticks up for strong crypto:

“Encryption and anonymity, today’s leading vehicles for online security, provide individuals with a means to protect their privacy, empowering them to browse, read, develop and share opinions and information without interference and enabling journalists, civil society organizations, members of ethnic or religious groups, those persecuted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, activists, scholars, artist and others to exercise the rights to freedom of expression and opinion.”

U.N. Special Rapporteur Calls Upon States to Protect Encryption and Anonymity Online
[Katitza Rodriguez/EFF]

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