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Apple and Google added al level of security where your data is encrypted and the tech companies cannot access it. This removes the burden from the companies who, in the past, had to release your data to the government once a warrant was presented. Now the tech companies will have only encrypted data.

 

Of course, the FBI is whining already and certainly the NSA is unhappy.

 

Privacy seems to be the enemy of our government.

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the tech companies were handing it over,

and got immunity.

 

not sure why you are giving them a free pass on this.

 

the problem isn't JUST the government.

 

The tech companies handed it over because the government demanded it. This move for encryption of data to protect privacy is a good thing. They may not be able to stop the government from demanding the data but they can keep the government from using what gets handed over with this strategy. Good for them.

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Originally Posted by Robert Williams View Post

The tech companies handed it over because the government demanded it. 



"pound salt" should be the answer, when demands come without warrants.


We allowed a GREAT miscarriage of justice when we allowed the Gov't to sweep this under the rug with amnesty.


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the tech companies were handing it over,

and got immunity.

 

not sure why you are giving them a free pass on this.

 

the problem isn't JUST the government.

 

It's just the government now. The tech companies now put privacy above federal warrants. That goes a long way with me.

 

+1. And the way they're doing it protects both them and us. It's a good solution.

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+1. And the way they're doing it protects both them and us. It's a good solution.



Are you seriously suggesting that if they wanted to play ball with the Gov't like they did a few year back,



they wouldn't just hand the data over..... along with the means of decrypting the data?


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+1. And the way they're doing it protects both them and us. It's a good solution.

Are you seriously suggesting that if they wanted to play ball with the Gov't like they did a few year back,

they wouldn't just hand the data over..... along with the means of decrypting the data?

 

I don't think you know very much about encryption technology. It's not that simple unless they employ a really pathetic method of encryption. If it's along the lines of PGP encryption, there isn't any "decryption method" they can hand over the government that will unlock the data. That's the point. With proper encryption, YOU are the only one that can decrypt it because only YOU have the private encryption key for your data.

 

The government wouldn't be whining about it if it was as simple as you seem to think it is.

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