[liberationtech] Domestic Security.....

[Robert Mathews (OSIA)]

*"The F.B.I.’s Director, a Critic of Strong Encryption, Once Defended It"*
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.
By Nicole Perlroth and Adam Goldman
*The new York Times*
April 30, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/technology/christopher-wray-fbi-encryption.html

        /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.”//
        //
        //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.”//
        /

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*"Mitch McConnell Moves to Expand Bill Barr’s Surveillance Powers"*
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.
Spencer Ackerman
Senior Nat’l Security Correspondent
*THE DAILY BEAST*
Updated May. 11, 2020 6:42PM ET
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-moves-to-expand-bill-barrs-surveillance-powers

-- 
/Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.
Principal Technologist &
//Distinguished Senior Research Scholar//
//Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)//
//University of Hawai'i/
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