Who cares about encryption? Caspar Bowden does, and he thinks everyone else should too. A former investment banker, he has made it his mission to help people protect their electronic privacy. He stresses he is not a campaigner, yet as director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) in London he has united civil rights activists, business people and the Internet community on this issue. He claims Britain’s new Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act treats computer users like criminals. Is he being paranoid? Duncan Graham-Rowe finds out what’s bugging him.
Why should we worry about making our computers…
