Join over 6500 Americans from all 50 states as an Individual ACP Member. If computers touch your life in any way, information about you is likely protected by encryption. It protects everything from computer-stored medical records to online credit card numbers.
Encryption is the best way to protect information communicated over the Internet.
It is also the most effective way to protect sensitive personal information and confidential business data stored on computer systems. Current U.S. policy on the domestic use of encryption is hands-off and has proven effective. On the other hand, the U.S. export policy on encryption is seriously flawed. Manufacturers in more than 20 different countries sell hundreds of products containing encryption that is much stronger than what U.S. policy allows U.S. manufacturers to sell worldwide. American companies are stuck on a playing field slanted against them in a hot growth market.