The FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies would like Silicon Valley firms to give them a “backdoor” to encryption to help better monitor the communications of suspected terrorists. Major tech companies such as Apple and Google have so far resisted such calls, however, as they argue persuasively that breaking encryption would do more long-term harm than it would do good. However, David Talbot of-Technology Review also makes the case-that Facebook and Google can do more to combat ISIS’s online influence in ways that don’t involve compromising their users’ security. FROM EARLIER:-BlackBerry’s former CEO is being sued for allegedly wrecking yet another company While Talbot acknowledges Google has done a good job of scrubbing ISIS’s sadistic videos of beheadings

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