Search Warrants and Smart Devices: Encryption, Privacy and the Crypto Wars

Search Warrants and Smart Devices: Encryption, Privacy & The Crypto Wars

Session: 11E

Convener: Dan DuBeau & Alex Rosen

Notes-taker(s): Dan DuBeau

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Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

Link from Dan DuBeau for slides provided at the session:

http://barlea.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IIW-Exceptional-Access-20200509.pdf

Summary:

The current methods of exceptional access are untenable. Solutions such as back doors and key escrow create more problems than they solve, and there is a flourishing gray market for hacking smart devices. There are approximately 500,000 to one million exceptional access requests each year, yet there is no standard for whose data is accessed, under what conditions, and how much of the data—no standards for governments, no standards for manufacturers. We propose a method of exceptional access that ensures 100% transparency, as well as a consortium of manufacturers, privacy and advocacy organizations, and law enforcement agencies to ensure complete global transparency is assured.