Why are our politicians so determined to ban us from using encrypted messaging?

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
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4 min readMay 25

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The right to privacy is a cornerstone of any democracy worth the name. Intercepting telephone conversations requires a court order, and involves the use of relatively sophisticated technology.

End-to-end encryption, or E2EE, is a system whereby only direct recipients can read messages. I emphasize the word only because the…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)