We actually lost the crypto wars

Dr. Christopher Kuner is Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen, an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge, and Senior Privacy Counsel in the Brussels office of the international law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal International Data Privacy Law published by Oxford University Press. In this post he looks at the crypto wars of the 1990s and argues that the Snowden revelations have shown that when it comes to the Internet, we can never be sure we have won privacy battles.