The battle between Washington and Silicon Valley over encryption

[Wireless News]

The epicenter of the-country’s technology community has been openly hostile toward its government ever since whistleblower-turned-fugitive Edward Snowden revealed two years ago the National Security Agency was collecting troves-of Americans’ communications records and hacking into the Internet backbone. Another battle between the Obama administration and the tech community was just beginning to heat up, as senior US officials called on major tech companies such as Apple and Google to weaken-encryption technology so that law enforcement and national security agencies have easier access to their-customers’ data. After the Snowden leaks, those companies-moved to-deploy stronger default encryption on products such as the iPhone or Android operating system, sparking the ire of-national security officials.

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