Personal Data Encryption
The standoff between Apple and the FBI over the locked smartphone used by a shooter in the December 2 San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack ended with an outside party helping the Federal Government unlock the device. That resolution failed to address the broader privacy and security issues involved, however, as well as concerns about the cases’s implications for the future of U.S. technology and innovation. The debate has now moved to Congress, where Senators Richard Burr (NC-R) and Dianne Feinstein (CAD),Chair and Vice Chair respectively of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, have proposed legislation to require tech firms to…
