Encryption: A Matter of Human Rights

Citation
Amnesty International, Encryption: A Matter of Human Rights (Mar. 2016) (full-text).

Overview
This briefing argues that people everywhere should be able to encrypt their communications and personal data as an essential protection of their rights to privacy and free speech. It claims that attempts to make companies create a "backdoor" into encryption software violate international human rights law, because they indiscriminately undermine the security of the communications and private data of anyone using the software.