In other words, Canadians consider rights protection to be core to their sense of who we are as a people. Acknowledging that encryption can be a good thing for society doesn’t erase police concerns about data access; it contextualizes them. However, in the vast majority of transactions online by ordinary, law-abiding citizens, encryption is a good thing that makes personal, sensitive data harder to capture and decipher. Thus, it’s time to stop looking at rights, the technologies that protect them, and people who argue for them, as barriers. Rather, they tell us, there is way too much secrecy and way too little accountability surrounding the ways these technologies are used.

Source: thestar July 10, 2016 09:56 UTC