Internet service providers want to charge content providers for priority delivery of their packets. A controversial FCC proposal could allow this to happen under certain conditions. A digital privacy advocate says net neutrality is a key issue in the debate over encryption. The U.S. government once sought to keep the country’s cryptographic technology to itself or to hold onto the keys to all encrypted data. But encryption is under fire both from government and potentially from ISPs’ new business models, he says. The authors call for regulators to keep control of communications in the hands of users and devices at the edge of networks.”]

