View source for Crypto Wars 3.0 – can privacy, security and encryption co-exist? – WS 05 2021

29 June 2021 | 14:45-15:45 CEST | Studio Trieste | [[image:Icons_live_20px.png | Live streaming | link=https://youtu.be/UPKluRbP77A]] | [[image:Icon_transcript_20px.png | Live transcription | link=https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=CFI-EuroDIG-C]]<br />
[[Consolidated_programme_2021#day-1|'''Consolidated programme 2021 overview / Day 1''']]<br /><br />
Proposals: [[List of proposals for EuroDIG 2021#prop_11|#11]] [[List of proposals for EuroDIG 2021#prop_22|#22]] [[List of proposals for EuroDIG 2021#prop_47|#47]] [[List of proposals for EuroDIG 2021#prop_59|#59]]<br /><br />
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== Session teaser ==
Providing law enforcement with a possibility to break encryption will always weaken the privacy of the communications for everyone. However, law enforcement can still lawfully access encrypted information for example via intercepting devices when the information is decrypted or via other many solutions put forward by technical experts that respect the rule of law and fundamental rights; technical proposals to this effect have been circulated in Brussels [https://edri.org/files/encryption/workarounds_edriposition_20170912.pdf in the past].

== Session description == 
In general, lawmakers, civil society and the tech industry agree that the use of encryption is a necessary means of protecting fundamental rights and the digital security of citizens, governments, industry and society. However, the debate on the relationships between encryption, privacy, online harms and the needs of law enforcement agencies has become more topical once again. 

Broadly speaking, civil society and tech companies have been in agreement that further encryption is necessary to protect the privacy of individuals, albeit with some differences of view in how this should be implemented, noting for example the current public skirmishing between Facebook and Apple.  On the other hand, many law enforcement agencies and legislators have been advocating the need for access to data to fulfil their obligations to protect society from crime, terrorism and other harms. 

Representatives from some of the key groups are being assembled to take part in the workshop and also to identify relevant background materials so that the discussion can be focused on the key points without spending time on context setting. 

Some of the questions to be addressed during the workshop:
*Should privacy of the individual take primacy over all other considerations? is encryption erroneously being conflated with privacy?
*Are tech companies hoping to use encryption to avoid having to comply with potentially arduous regulatory requirements that relate to content?
*Are law enforcement agencies and others using unjustified scare tactics in an attempt to push lawmakers to break encryption?
*Will methods that allow law enforcement agencies to break or circumvent encryption always weaken that encryption and ultimately help bad actors?
*Is the argument moot anyway because a combination of AI and quantum computing will render most encryption ineffective?
*If some kind of backdoor were to be built in, which countries should have access to them?

== Format == 
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== Further reading == 

Amnesty International: [https://www.amnestyusa.org/files/encryption_-_a_matter_of_human_rights_-_pol_40-3682-2016.pdf Encryption, a matter of human rights]

EDRi: [https://edri.org/files/encryption/workarounds_edriposition_20170912.pdf Encryption workarounds]

EDRi: [https://www.edri.org/files/20160125-edri-crypto-position-paper.pdf Position paper on encryption]

European Council on Foreign Relations: [https://ecfr.eu/publication/no_middle_ground_moving_on_from_the_crypto_wars/ No middle ground: Moving on from the crypto wars]

Europol: [https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-documents/second-report-of-observatory-function-encryption Second report of the observatory function on encryption (2020)]

Europol: [https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-documents/first-report-of-observatory-function-encryption First report of the observatory function on encryption (2019)]

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*Vittorio Bertola, Open-Xchange
*Diego Naranjo
*Andrew Campling

'''Key Participants'''
*Dan Sexton, CTO, The Internet Watch Foundation

*Iverna McGowan, Director Europe Office, Centre for Democracy and Technology
:Iverna McGowan is Director of CDT’s Europe Office, and an advocate for ensuring international human rights standards are at the core of law and policy related to technology. At CDT, Iverna leads the Brussels-based Europe team that works to put human rights and democracy at the center of the European Union and its member countries’ tech policy agendas.
:Prior to joining CDT, Iverna served as a Senior Advisor to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

*Jan Ellermann, Senior Data Protection Specialist, Europol
:Jan Ellermann works as Senior Specialist in Europol's Data Protection Function and provides operational data protection related guidance across the organisation. He holds a doctoral degree in law and has published various articles on data protection and information security related topics. Jan is a certified data protection auditor and has obtained a Master of Science degree in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation at the University College in Dublin (UCD). 

*Robin Wilton, Director Internet Trust, Internet Society
:Robin Wilton is the Internet Society’s Director, Internet Trust. He is a specialist in online privacy and digital identity, with over 30 years’ experience in systems engineering, consulting and industry analyst roles.
:Robin joined the Internet Society in 2012, and has represented it in the OECD’s Internet Technical Advisory Committee, the Council of Europe’s committee on privacy and data protection, and in numerous industry forums. He recently led a project to produce Personal Data Protection Guidelines for Africa in conjunction with the African Union Commission.
*Dr Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin (an active IETF participant, former IAB member)
*Professor Ulrich Kelber, the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

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*Tatiana Tropina

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