RightsCon Tunis 2019

This session will hep us figure out what civil society organizations can do to help our home nations develop considered, pragmatic, and actionable position on encryption and lawful access. Public discussions have largely failed to deliver this, with governments emphasizing the threat of criminal activity from "going dark", and civil society emphasizing security threats from any lawful access measures. We know that encryption provides important protection for all of us. We also know that encryption technologies get used by organized crime groups, terrorists and other "bad actors". The Golden Age of Surveillance is coming to a close and countries need to figure out how the government can provide public safety without requiring surveillance that destroys trust, privacy and individual freedoms.

If law enforcement and technology communities continue don't start talking, we risk ending up with bad law that makes our societies less secure and less private, without making things any easier for law enforcement. We need to come together and find solutions to that are realistic, rational and doable. This session will seek to understand how we can work together and with law enforcement to keep our communities safe and enable our citizens to use robust encryption technologies.