Major law enforcement organizations are lining up to support a controversial bill that would give investigators greater access to encrypted data. In the past few days, prominent police commissioners, district attorneys and the industry groups that represent them have pressed Congress to move on a bill that would force companies to provide “technical assistance” to […]
Obama on encryption: ‘It’s fetishizing our phones above every other value’
President Barack Obama can’t comment on the specifics of the ongoing feud between Apple and the FBI, but he did sit down with Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith at South by Southwest Interactive on Friday to weigh in on one of the most pressing issues facing American society today: Is national security more important than […]
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