{"id":174315,"date":"2023-10-16T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-fight-over-the-future-of-encryption-explained"},"modified":"2023-10-16T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:31:11","slug":"the-fight-over-the-future-of-encryption-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-fight-over-the-future-of-encryption-explained","title":{"rendered":"The fight over the future of encryption, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I want to tell you about one thing that came up in our conversation: efforts to, in some way, monitor encrypted messages.<\/p>\n

Policy proposals have been popping up around the world (like in Australia<\/a>, India<\/a>, and, most recently, the UK<\/a>) that call for tech companies to build in ways to gain information about encrypted messages, including through back-door access. There have also been efforts to increase moderation and safety on encrypted messaging apps, like Signal and Telegram, to try to prevent the spread of abusive content, like child sexual abuse material<\/a>, criminal networking, and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, advocates for encryption are generally opposed to these sorts of proposals as they weaken the level of user privacy that\u2019s currently guaranteed by end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to tell you about one thing that came up in our conversation: efforts to, in some way, monitor encrypted messages. Policy proposals have been popping up around the world (like in Australia, India, and, most recently, the UK) that call for tech companies to build in ways to gain information about encrypted messages, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1625,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-encryption","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}