You Can`t Always Get What You Want: Apple v. FBI and How Will

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You Can't Always Get What You Want: Apple v. FBI and How Will Law
Enforcement Get What it Needs in a Post-Snowden Encryption Era?
Prof. Stephanie Pell
Assistant Professor and Cyber Ethics Fellow at West Point’s Army Cyber Institute (ACI) and Affiliate
Scholar at The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA
18.5.2016, 18.15h
Pro Iure Auditorium
EG.44, Jacob Burckhardt Haus, Peter Merian-Weg 8, 4002 Basel
Guest Lecture
Following the Snowden disclosures, many companies are now enabling encryption by default, often
thwarting the traditional means by which law enforcement intercepts communications content. While the
tension between encryption and surveillance is often framed as a contest between privacy and security, it
is first and foremost a security issue on both sides, with privacy equities integrated into the argument for
enhanced encryption: “backdoors” placed in networks or mobile devices to sustain the existing regime of
law enforcement access are readily exploitable by criminals and foreign governments; strong end-to-end
encryption, for example, defends against such predations. The reconciliation of these competing visions of
security – of law enforcement’s traditional public safety mission with cybersecurity – will require law
enforcement to employ new kinds of investigative techniques. These new techniques will, in turn, force
policy makers to consider how to regulate and oversee law enforcement activities, balancing what law
enforcement may need against the fundamental imperatives of cybersecurity, as well as the social
benefits of transparency and electronic privacy.
Gastvortrag
Seit Edward Snowdens Enthüllungen werben Telekommunikations- und Netzdienstleister standardmässig
mit Verschlüsselungstechniken. Für Strafverfolgungsbehörden bedeutet dies, dass sie nur unter grossen
Schwierigkeiten – oder gar nicht – Kommunikation überwachen können, wie jüngst der Fall Apple vs FBI
gezeigt hat. Die aktuellen Debatte ist durch die Polarisierung geprägt: Auf der einen Seite stehen
diejenigen, die Verschlüsselung als Garant für Privatsphäre ansehen, auf der anderen Seite diejenigen,
die einen Zugang der Behörden als Garant für Sicherheit ansehen. Stephanie Pell diskutiert in ihrem
Vortrag, ob diese Debatte nicht grundsätzlich überdacht werden muss.
The lecture will be held in English.
All interested persons are invited. Registration is not required.

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