Report on the IGF 2009 Workshop on Balancing the Need for Security and Concern for Civil Liberties.

Security threats are real. Governments are concerned about Cyber warfare and related threats, business entities suffer from cyber crime in various ways while the average user faces various forms of security threats online. These threats are real but the measures against these threats are considered disproportionate and happen to cause greater harm sometimes than the threats to be warded off. Moves to address the security concerns often result in breach of privacy, This round table was organized to bring together different points of view on Security and Privacy and encourage a free and unrestrained debate to look for convergence in some areas between the two sides. The roundtable approached this broadly with a view to define and enumerate concerns on both sides and look for unseen common grounds.

Igf Roundtable Balancing the Need for Security and Concern for Civil Liberties

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