Yanghee Lee on Why Universal Access to Secure Communications is a Fundamental Human Right

Lee is the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar. The government has cut off Internet and cellphone access is certain regions, which means that the population there have no way to let anyone outside know what is actually happening there.

So the senior executives of so-called "tech giants" should be very clear that by denying people like me the rights to develop secure communications technology for all, they are complicit in massive, gross abuses of human rights all over the world, which have resulted in the deaths of millions.