Queer and transgender people globally rely on encryption to lead our private lives without legal consequences. Efforts to eliminate it are utterly chillingThe US government’s effort to force Apple to build a novel “back door” to a single phone could lead to all of our encrypted data on virtually all of our mobile devices and personal computers being compromised by nefarious adversaries seeking to cause us harm,as many believe rightly noted before me. But for queer and transgender people who, as I once did, and rely on device encryption to allow us to lead our private lives without legal consequences,the potential repercussions of the governments efforts to eliminate that encryption are utterly chilling. And even whether Apple prevails in court this time, lawmakers across the US and throughout the world are now considering laws that would require that all companies build back doors into all of our devices by default.
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Source: theguardian.com