Description: In the evolving digital landscape, the tension between personal privacy and public safety is increasingly palpable, particularly in the realm of digital encryption technologies. Our workshop, "Balancing Acts: Encryption, Privacy, and Public Safety," will delve into the complexities of designing and implementing digital privacy technologies that both protect individual rights and enable lawful access for public safety purposes. With a focus on emerging technical standards in encryption and anonymization, this session will bring together a diverse panel of world-leading experts from policy, industry, and NGOs. Through panel contributions followed by group discussions, we will explore the nuanced trade-offs between emerging technical standards (such as E2EE) for user privacy and the challenges it presents in detecting and preventing online threats, including child exploitation and cybercrime. This workshop aims to foster a multifaceted dialogue on harnessing innovation while balancing the inherent risks in the digital space, highlighting the societal implications of privacy technology decisions.
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