Encryption Standards Threatened Under Pretext of Battling Coronavirus - by Kai Sedgwick

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Encryption Standards Threatened Under Pretext of Battling Coronavirus
news.bitcoin.com
by Kai Sedgwick
March 21st, 2020

Excerpt:

Governments around the world have been trying for some time to bypass encryption and backdoor messaging apps. End-to-end encryption was preventing authorities from stopping terrorist attacks, we were told, and personal privacy had to be sacrificed for the greater good. Now, as the coronavirus spreads through the world, the powers-that-be claim public health is being jeopardized by the oversharing of false or misleading information pertaining to the pandemic. The encryption battle is warming up.

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