Moral Issues Surrounding Government Access to Encrypted Data

Moral Issues Surrounding Government Access to Encrypted Data
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Moral issues surrounding government access to encrypted data.
Introduction
Thesis Statement.
Governments should be provided access to encrypted data to assist in the pursuit of promoting security.
Risk ethics theory.
The main reason for allowing the implementation of these technologies is to safeguard the people's security. The risk surrounding the relationship between technology and security, especially in encryption, cannot be avoided because of citizen privacy.
Technicalities surrounding the implementation of mechanisms of government access to encrypted communications.
There is a need for mechanisms to be put in place that will ensure law enforcers have exclusive access to encrypted communication without destroying the framework around which encryption had been built.
Government access remains unavoidable, especially in matters concerning national security. Whether the letter's requirements are enforced or not, the government still needs to play its part in ensuring the security of the nation.
The moral relativism theory and moral reasons against the 2020 government directive.
The moral reasons for encryption promote the fundamental human right of privacy that every citizen has. The difference in opinion between the government and various other stakeholders supports a contrary approach based on the moral relativism theory.
Conclusion
When considering government monitoring of user-encrypted data, it is necessary to consider whether service users should be able to retrieve, control, and remove information.
Moral Issues Surrounding Government Access to Encrypted Data
Encryption has been employed as a technique that guards some liberties while also promoting qualities such as honesty, making it an ethical concern. John Rawls, a political philosopher, debated whether using unbreakable encryption offline or online would be regarded as an acceptable theory of unbreakable encryption. The ethics of encryption revolve around privacy as a human right. The public has an unalienable right to privacy when it comes to their personal information and conversations. The end of the year 2020, despite the challenges of the Covid pandemic, the six countries, including the United States of America, sign letters for the adoption of technologies that would allow their governments and service provider’s access to encrypted communications. The debate on this move is battling since encryption guarantees one's right to privacy, but it must be weighed against other liberties, raising a moral question. This paper affirms that governments should be provided access to encrypted data to assist in the fight against cyber security threats, among other security threats, but with explicit policy and regulations.
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