A) Privacy Enhancing Technologies should be explicitly rejected if they act as a legitimizing facade behind which long-lived privacy invasion and political oppression could be deployed by (present or future) Governments. We recommend that a Global PET solution should be explicitly designed to pro-actively prevent abuse by Governments or Regions; and

B) We recommend that there is a need to explicitly require all stake-holders to be equally accountable in all information processing and security systems.

"Synaptic strongly recommends that Privacy Enhancing Technologies should be explicitly rejected by Think-Trust when and if they act as a legitimising facade behind which long-lived privacy invasion and political oppression could be deployed by (present or future) Governments."

"If a Government is permitted the CAPABILITY to employ centralized escrow measures on all security systems in the name of 'accountability' within its jurisdiction, this would fundamentally undermine trust and create the perceptinot the reality of – a panopticon, and open potential for real abuse of the captured and permanently archived data."

"Synaptic asks how can Government controlled pseudo-anonymity protect the civilian from potential abuses within the current, or future Government?"

"If wiretaping and escrow systems are going to be built, then we propose that they must be engineered at the same levels of auditability, robustness and security as National Security Systems and with the same accountability and privacy controls required in Enterprise systems by European Data Privacy Directives."

"It is not sufficient to say, 'Enterprises must behave in this proper way by law', and then not impose functionally equivalent requirements on ALL branches of Government. ... The separation of powers, checks-and-balances and the rule of law should not be an option but a legal requirement in cyber-security systems or electronic law-enforcement activities particularly as it is clearly acknowledged that cyberspace touches every citizen."

Benjamin Gittins, Ronald Kelson, "Part 6 of Synaptic Laboratories Limited's input to ThinkTrust's consultation on their D3.1b Recommendations Report to the European Commission", January 2010