In introducing the invoice, Sen. Warren used the chorus that privacy-enhancing expertise facilitates crime. That is incorrect, and it’s precisely the road of reasoning we hear from critics of end-to-end encryption and Tor (which allows nameless net looking). {That a} expertise could possibly be used to violate the regulation doesn’t imply that there’s something incorrect with that expertise. Criminals have lengthy used money to commit crimes, however we don’t name for a ban on money consequently. For a similar cause, we don’t name for a ban on automobiles, although they can be utilized as getaway automobiles. Within the Eighties, studios tried to make VCRs unlawful as a result of they could possibly be used for copyright infringement – they usually nearly succeeded. Like automobiles and VCRs, privacy-enhancing applied sciences serve an essential function and shouldn’t be banned merely as a result of they could possibly be misused.