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During the past decade, our society has become immersed in a debate about the role of electronic surveillance in our democracy. Revolutionary changes in our communications infrastructure, brought about by the amazing growth of the Internet and the ever-increasing digitization of information, pose unprecedented threats to personal security and privacy. An increasing amount of sensitive information is now circulating in electronic form, including electronic mail (E-mail), FAX messages, telephone conversations, fund transfers, trade secrets and …

…servers, and parents of the world must regulate themselves, so as not to force government regulations that may stifle the best communication instrument in history. If encryption catches on and becomes widespread, then there will no longer be a need for the government to meddle in the Internet, and the biggest problem will work itself out. The government should rethink its approach to censorship and encryption issues, allowing the Internet to continually grow and mature.