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The FBI's director says the agency is collecting data that he will present next year in hopes of sparking a national conversation about law enforcement's increasing inability to access encrypted electronic devices.
Speaking on Friday at the American Bar Association conference in San Francisco, James Comey says the agency was unable to access 650 of 5,000 electronic devices investigators attempted to search over the last 10 months.
Comey says encryption technology makes it impossible in a growing number of cases to search electronic devices. He says it's up to U.S. citizens to decide whether to modify the technology.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-chief-calls-national-talk-over-encryption-vs-safety-n624101
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 07 2016, @02:57AM
If it weren't for your proven track record of unconstitutional actions, including the outright illegal and blatantly corrupt perversion of justice known as parallel construction [wikipedia.org]... if you'd actually honor the constitution and the law and only go after people when you have a valid warrant in hand and only looked in the specific places listed in the warrant for only the specific thing listed in the warrant, like the constitution demands, then maybe we wouldn't have to go about encrypting everything just to try to keep our fundamental human rights and constitutional rights from being routinely trampled by the occupying military force formerly known as our law enforcement agencies.