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ALLIANCE BLOG POSTS 

 

• Poking Holes in End-to-End Encryption Would Create Dangerous Consequences for Consumers, Innovation and Data Security

• Data Protection, Law Enforcement and the Global Digital Economy (testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives)

• Beltway Voices: A Conversation With Representative Ted Lieu

• Beltway Voices: A Conversation With Chairman Will Hurd

• Beltway Voices: A Conversation With Commissioner Terrell McSweeny of the Federal Trade Commission

• The Encryption Battle: Data Privacy vs. Public Safety

 

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Senate Committee on the Judiciary Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

View the video of the hearing below

Date:  Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Time:  10:00 AM ET

Witness: The Honorable James B. Comey, Jr., Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

 

 

 

 

 

Read the Apps Alliance blog post:  Poking Holes in End-to-End Encryption Would Create Dangerous Consequences for Consumers, Innovation and Data Security

 

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Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing

Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy

View the video of the hearing below: 

Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Time: 10:00 AM EDT

Witnesses: 

1. The Honorable Sally Quillian Yates, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

2. The Honorable James B. Comey, Jr., Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

3. The Honorable Cyrus Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York County New York , NY

4. Dr. Herbert Lin, Senior Research Scholar, Center For International Security And Cooperation, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Stanford University , CA

5. Professor Peter Swire, Huang Professor Of Law And Ethics, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta , GA

The Apps Alliance submitted a statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary prior to the hearing. 

Read the Apps Alliance blog post: The Encryption Battle: Data Privacy vs. Public Safety

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U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Information Technology Committee on Government Oversight and Reform Hearing

Encryption Technology and Possible U.S. Policy Responses

Date: April 29, 2015

Witnesses: 

1. Kevin Bankston, Policy Director, New America’s Open Technology Institute

2. Amy Hess, Executive Assistant Director, Science and Technology Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Department of Justice

3. Daniel Conley, District Attorney, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

4. Jon Potter, President, Application Developers Alliance

5. Matthew Blaze, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Computer and Information ScienceSchool of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania

Apps Alliance President Jon Potter testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Information Technology. Recently, law enforcement agencies have been pushing hard for unfettered access to encrypted products and services—a major issue for developers and businesses across the globe.

“Developers, industry partners, and consumers will face tremendous obstacles if government forces apps to try to both protect privacy and provide privacy-breaching back doors to the government,” Potter told the Committee. “Any backdoor is a vulnerability that hackers and cyberthieves will exploit, and there is no evidence that split-key encryption or any type of shared-key system will be effective.”

Potter concluded by urging Congress to protect consumer data and ensure a healthy international marketplace for app development. 

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Articles

Jan. 2016:  Max Levchin Wants to School Lawmakers on Encryption (Wall Street Journal)

Nov. 2015:  Choice Between Security and Liberty a False One (CNN)

Oct. 2015: Obama Won’t Seek Access to Encrypted User Data (New York Times)

Oct. 2015: Former Intelligence Director: Law Enforcement Must “Adapt” to Encryption (National Journal)

Sept. 2015: Worried About Your Data Security? How Encryption Can Help Protect Your Personal Information (Huffington Post)

July 2015: Security Experts Oppose Government Access to Encrypted Communication (New York Times)

July 2015: Encryption debate shows Silicon Valley takes power back from feds (San Francisco Chronicle) 

April 2015:  Lawmakers skeptical about encryption override (FWC: The Business of Federal Technology)

April 2015: Lawmakers criticize FBI’s request to mandate encryption back doors (PCWorld)

April 2015: Law Banning Default Encryption Unlikely (BankInfoSecurity)  

April 2015: Lawmakers Challenge FBI On Surveillance Backdoors, Encryption (Buzzfeed)