Reconciling The People's Rights to Privacy with National Security

According to Alan Davidson, former Google executive turned Commerce Department official, strong encryption and law enforcement interests are not “irreconcilable.”

That comes from https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/15/former-google-exec-turned-obama-official-wont-say-believes-magical-solution-encryption-debate/ and the next sentence is:

But he won’t speculate as to how that’s possible.

Well I can. It's not at all difficult to think up at least one reasonable way to do it. I attribute the idea to Aaron Schwartz, who said before he died that he wanted his entire e-mail archive to be made publicly available.

We can reconcile the requirements of privacy, security and transparency simply by making one single global secure Internet, using the strongest cryptography possible, available to every and all people of all nations. And we build that system in such a way that security and integrity checks apply not only to the data that is being stored and communicated, but to the records of access and update of that data.

I have no objection whatsoever to the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, or those of the Russian Federation, or the United States or the UK, reading any of my communications, provided they are prepared to tell me truthfully for exactly what purpose they require that information, and provided that they can prove that this purpose is in the interests of the common good of all of Humanity for all time.

Now the problem with this idea, I suspect, is that the only government in the world that is potentially capable of providing such a proof is that of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

I say potentially capable, because it is not, as far as I know, actually capable of doing this, yet. The problem is that we do not have any reason to believe that any computer or communications system in use in Bolivia is in fact secure. So when the government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia accesses my data, though they may be able to demonstrate that their intention is for the common good, they will not be able to demonstrate that they are the only ones accessing that data, and that it will not be accessed by other unknown parties whose interests are not those of the common good.

Of course the same objection holds for any government of any nation. So the problem we all have to solve, and solve urgently and effectively, is how to provide permanent access to verifiably secure communications and computation to every person on earth.