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<font size="+1"><b>"The F.B.I.’s Director, a Critic of Strong
Encryption, Once Defended It"</b></font><br>
Christopher Wray has said tough encryption offered by companies like
Facebook and Apple blinds law enforcement. But his law firm defended
it five years ago.<br>
By Nicole Perlroth and Adam Goldman<br>
<b>The new York Times</b><br>
April 30, 2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/technology/christopher-wray-fbi-encryption.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/technology/christopher-wray-fbi-encryption.html</a><br>
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<blockquote><i>As recently as last month, Christopher A. Wray, the
director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was pushing
tech companies like Facebook to give law enforcement access to
what he called “warrant-proof encryption.”</i><i><br>
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</i><i>It was the latest salvo in an intensifying battle between
the government and Silicon Valley over so-called end-to-end
encryption, which protects users’ data from being read by
outsiders, including F.B.I. agents with a warrant. Mr. Wray,
and Attorney General William P. Barr have been pushing tech
companies to roll back encryption, with Mr. Barr going as far
as to imply that companies like Facebook and Apple that offer
end-to-end encryption were “illegitimate.”</i><i><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>"Mitch McConnell Moves to Expand Bill Barr’s
Surveillance Powers"</b></font><br>
Welcome to the Trump-era Patriot Act: a law that protects
politicians while giving the government greater knowledge of the
websites you searched for and visited.<br>
Spencer Ackerman<br>
Senior Nat’l Security Correspondent<br>
<b>THE DAILY BEAST</b><br>
Updated May. 11, 2020 6:42PM ET <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-moves-to-expand-bill-barrs-surveillance-powers">https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-moves-to-expand-bill-barrs-surveillance-powers</a><br>
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-- <br>
<font color="#b3b3b3"><i>Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.<br>
Principal Technologist &<br>
</i><i>Distinguished Senior Research Scholar</i><i><br>
</i><i>Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)</i><i><br>
</i><i>University of Hawai'i</i></font></div>
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