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Hardy K. Australia’s encryption laws: practical need or political strategy? Internet Policy Review [Internet]. 2020 [24 August 2026];9(3). Available from: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/australias-encryption-laws-practical-need-or-political-strategy

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Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries.

KEYWORDS: Encryption, Decentralisation, Surveillance, Privacy

In 2021, a message tracing regulation came into effect in India. This leaves the private communications of half a billion users of such services vulnerable to novel forms of abuse. The authors discuss the relevance to jurisdictions worldwide currently mulling over encryption regulation.

This paper is part of Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Monique Mann and Angela Daly. Introduction Since the Snowden revelations in 2013 (see e.g., Lyon, 2014; Lyon, 2015) an ongoing policy issue has been the legitimate scope of surveillance, and the extent to which individuals and groups can assert their fundamental rights, including privacy. There has been a renewed focus on policies regarding access to encrypted communications, which are part of a longer history of the ‘cryptowars’ of the 1990s (see e.g., Koops, 1999). We examine these provisions in the Anglophone ‘Five Eyes’ (FVEY) The FVEY partnership is a comprehensive …

KEYWORDS: Encryption, Five eyes, Surveillance, Extraterritoriality

This paper examines three historical imaginaries associated with encryption, considering how they are intertwined in contemporary policy debates.

KEYWORDS: Encryption, Privacy, Security, History, Information control

A committee of the Council of Europe released a report on mass surveillance on 26 January 2015. Some of its recommendations are expected to influence the debate heavily.

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