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U.S. privacy-policy whistleblower Edward Snowden made headlines recently for blasting an encryption-skirting provision in a new Russian Internet and cellphone regulation law.
The legislation requires Internet and mobile companies to provide authorities with a back door that gives them access to the contents of encrypted content. The government contends the law is aimed at preventing terrorism; opponents counter that it’s also aimed at reining in dissidents.
Russia usually takes the lead in passing anti-human-rights legislation in the former Soviet Union, but in the case of the encryption-skirting provision, it took a cue from Kazakhstan, which enacted such …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
