Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries.
News and Research articles on Encryption
In 2021, a message tracing regulation came into effect in India. This leaves the private communications of half a billion users of such services vulnerable to novel forms of abuse. The authors discuss the relevance to jurisdictions worldwide currently mulling over encryption regulation.
This paper is part of Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Monique Mann and Angela Daly. Introduction Since the Snowden revelations in 2013 (see e.g., Lyon, 2014; Lyon, 2015) an ongoing policy issue has been the legitimate scope of surveillance, and the extent to which individuals
Australia’s encryption laws reflect a pattern of politically charged, rights-infringing responses to terrorism within a permissive constitutional environment.
This paper examines three historical imaginaries associated with encryption, considering how they are intertwined in contemporary policy debates.
Blanket surveillance
Decisive report on surveillance shakes up debate in Europe
A committee of the Council of Europe released a report on mass surveillance on 26 January 2015. Some of its recommendations are expected to influence the debate heavily.
Privacy enhancing technologies
Addressing the right to privacy in 2015
Don’t let the legal and legitimate pursuit of privacy be marginalised or criminalised, argues Becky Kazansky of the Tactical Technology Collective.
Technical standardisation is caught up in politics. At the 88th IETF meeting starting today in Vancouver engineers discuss reactions to mass surveillance.
There are significant dangers in surveilling online communications unless the mechanisms and policies of surveillance are subject to strict and legally enforceable standards of transparency, oversight, and control.
