Daily Dot: Sen. Ron Wyden is ready to defend encryption in Congress

We can't let the culture of fear destroy our privacy.  Article by Eric Geller for The Daily Dot With the debate over encryption ramping up again in the wake of the Paris attacks, Ron Wyden is simultaneously exasperated and determined.

We can't let the culture of fear destroy our privacy. 

Article by Eric Geller for The Daily Dot

With the debate over encryption ramping up again in the wake of the Paris attacks, Ron Wyden is simultaneously exasperated and determined.

The Oregon Democrat is one of the most vocal privacy advocates in the Senate, where he has led the fight against controversial technology bills like the cybersecurity legislation CISA. Now, two Senate committees are preparing to investigate whether strong encryption is endangering America by helping criminals and terrorists hide their conversations from police and spies. In an interview on Wednesday afternoon, Wyden told the Daily Dot that he had seen this movie before.

"Too often in the past, particularly when the Congress understandably gets caught up in the moment, there’s not enough effort to think through the implications of various policies, and you end up with what I call the lose-lose strategy," Wyden said. "People want more safety and more liberty, [but] we end up with not much of either. That is a foolish way to go."

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