Privacy vs. Security: Can There a Balance Between Law Enforcement Needs and Commercial Encryption

With companies such as Apple closing ‘back doors’ on their products rendering customer data more secure, law enforcement agencies such as the FBI have voiced concerns that their ability to combat terrorism and serious organized crime are now compromised. These developments have yet again raised the critical, but as yet unresolved, issue of where – if at all – should a citizen’s right to privacy begin and end, and how can law enforcement ensure public safety and law and order.

What impact should the latest encryption technologies have on cell-phone, Internet and commercial data storage? Should such technologies, for example, protect citizen’s data from law enforcement and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) search warrants?

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