Because I believe that strong encryption protects valuable American intellectual property from hackers and adversaries overseas – one of the most critical problems facing both startups and large corporations. Apple said that devices running its new-software would be encrypted by default.-Even the company itself unable to gain access to its customers' protected data.-And Google made headlines last year when it announced that "full-disk encryption," which protects user information on its Android devices, would be enabled by default.

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