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the national Commission on informatics and liberties (CNIL) has clearly expressed its support encryption of personal data in a position, adopted Thursday, April 7 and made public Friday 8 at the presentation of its annual report. She explains that this technology is required to ensure the right to privacy, and is an essential component of computer security as well as a protective factor or competition for French companies.
data encryption says the CNIL, helps “protect people and their privacy, to guarantee their fundamental rights.” “Encryption is a vital part of our security,” to “protect information systems,” continues the commission, “also contributes to the strength of our economy digital “ and ” promote the development of the digital economy “.
” legal framework established “
for several months the United States but also in France, there are voices, accusing the technology manufacturers to complicate investigations, including on terrorism, offering their users with cryptographic means of protection of their data. Some have called for the establishment of “backdoors” that is to say, a way to make obsolete data encryption for the purposes of an investigation. In his position, the CNIL strongly advises against such a device
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The Committee recalls the first existence in France of a “legal framework established” regarding the collaboration of companies providing cryptography criminal investigations. The CNIL thus seen in “backdoors” a “risk group tending to weaken the security level of people facing the extent of cyber criminal” and highlights the fact that criminals, those that you want to accomplish with this mechanism, investigators continue to use resistant encryption.
If the question may arise in the ranks of law enforcement, in the most technical environments, “backdoors “are unanimously against them. The National Security Agency Information Systems (Anssi), the authority under the Prime Minister responsible for the protection of computer systems of the state, recently drafted a confidential memo in which it also decided in favor of a robust encryption and was challenging the idea of ”back door”.
tense Background
the CNIL’s position is not surprising to from an institution that encourages businesses for years to use this encryption protection technology and is preparing to do the same for individuals if the proposed digital law, adopted in the Assembly remains in the state.
But this position is involved in a very tense context on this issue. In the US, the question of whether the authorities should have a “back door” has raged for months. The FBI also tried to engage a showdown in court with Apple to get his help to “break” the encryption of a phone belonging to a terrorist San Bernardino, launching a debate on the coercive power of authorities on technology companies. A bill is also being prepared on this subject before the US Senate.
In France, the encryption issue was also invited to the debates around the project menu control law against organized crime and terrorism. The fines for companies that do not cooperate enough with the authorities in this area have been strengthened.
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