A letter from the Russian government: Defending encryption in Court

This week we speak to Ioannis, a senior lawyer at PI, about his and his colleague's work on the landmark case protecting encyrption at the European Court of Human Rights: Podchasov v. Russia.

The case dealt with a Russian law obliging telecommunications service providers to indiscriminately retain content and communications data for certain time periods, as well as a 2017 disclosure order by the Russian Federal Security Service requiring Telegram Messenger company to disclose technical information which would facilitate “the decoding of communications”.

Links:

• PI case page: https://privacyinternational.org/legal-action/podchasov-v-russia
• ECtHR judgment in the Podchasov case: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-230854
• PI's work on encryption: https://privacyinternational.org/learn/encryption
• PI's report on End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): https://privacyinternational.org/report/4949/securing-privacy-end-end-encryption
• More information about the Marper case: http://www.genewatch.org/sub-563146