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The short-lived adventure of India’s encryption policy

Saturday, 10 October, 2015 · by bhairav | in Civil Liberties, Criminal Law and Procedure, Free Speech, Privacy and Surveillance | tagged Apple, backdoors, Blackberry, brute-force decryption, chilling effect, communications, crypto-wars, Daniel Solove, data at rest, data in transit, David Kaye, Deity, Digital India, email, encryption, end-to-end encryption, Facebook, free speech, Google, honeypots, India, Kharak Singh, metadata, Modi, national encryption policy, NSA, privacy, private key, public key, Ronald Dworkin, Silicon Valley, Subba Rao, Supreme Court of India, surveillance, WhatsApp | Leave a comment

In late September 2015, the Indian government published an ill-conceived and poorly drafted national encryption policy which would have had severely detrimental impacts on privacy, freedom of speech, national security, foreign investment, and the regular business of the telecommunications and Internet industry in India. After public uproar and international ridicule, the policy was withdrawn on the eve of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley to invite investment in his Digital India project. This post simply breaks down encryption and examines the motives and implications of the policy. Click the title to read more.

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