Unlike public posts, private messages, such as direct messages or encrypted chats, often involve sensitive, personal communications shared with the expectation of privacy. Therefore, Courts around the world face a significant dilemma when asked to access these private communications during investigations.
Going back to the case of Samuel Pina, students are prompted to consider this dilemma: should the Supreme Court uphold the Stored Communications Act (SCA), or should they require tech companies to grant law enforcement access to private communications? If so, on what grounds do we draw the line, and how do other countries navigate these issues concerning privacy laws and law enforcement access?
Develop a critical paper where you take a position in favor or against upholding the SCA.
Pick a specific case in which it would benefitial or not benefitial to grant access to law enforcement/government to encrypted communications.
Analyze critically both sides of the argument.
Develop a stakeholder analysis, what is important to each actor and why? How would your recommended actions impact each group? What could you do to influence a certain powerful group to adopt your solution?
Scholarly academic sources:
As mentioned in the rubric, you MUST use sources outside of the ones given to you already in the pre-readings. However, you are welcome to use the sources in the pre-readings but these DO NOT count as part of the required number of scholarly academic sources.
Include at LEAST four scholarly academic sources. e.g. journal articles or books. Total document, i.e. both Part A and Part B: 1,250 to 1,500 words
Include an opening paragraph -five to six lines- that summarizes the entire paper. This is not an intro that describes what the paper is about, rather this is a full summary of the paper. Think of this, if my paper landed in the hands of busy executives, would they have a full understanding of what my analysis is, as well as my recommendations and why by just reading the opening paragraph?
Do not answer the paper in a Q&A format style. Rather use sections and sub-headings.
Strengthen your storytelling by using numbers and charts, where/if relevant.