28th May 2015 By Sara Peters
According to the report, encryption and anonymity tools (like VPNs, proxies, and onion routing) are both necessary to ensuring individuals' privacy, freedom of opinion, freedom of expression, and freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas. All of these rights are protected under and described by the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which 168 states are party, and the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
Yet, law enforcement and intelligence agencies in a variety of countries, including the United States, are trying to institute restrictions on encryption, arguing that it jeopardizes their efforts to protect national security and bring criminals to justice.
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UN Report Warns Encryption Backdoors Violate Human Rights
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Privacy is our right under the constitution. Freedom of opinion and expression.
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Agreed. And frankly there isn't much they can do to stop it.
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