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FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that unless the U.S. government and private industry are able to come to a compromise on the issue of default encryption on consumer devices, legislation may be how the debate is ultimately decided.
"I think there should be [room for compromise]," Wray said Wednesday night at a national security conference in Aspen, Colorado. "I don't want to characterize private conversations we're having with people in the industry. We're not there yet for sure. And if we can't get there, there may be other remedies, like legislation, that would have to come to bear."
Wray described the issue of “Going Dark” because of encryption as a "significant" and "growing" problem for federal, state and local law enforcement as well as foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He claims strong encryption on mobile phones keeps law enforcement from gaining access to key evidence as it relates to active criminal investigations.
Source: FBI director: Without compromise on encryption, legislation may be the 'remedy'
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday July 24 2018, @01:37AM
I checked the wiki's references.
Let me point out that statistics from those tables are really wrong for Russia and at least some of Asian countries. The document referenced from wiki is about the total number of employees of the internal affairs department. This department, in addition to police officers, has education facilities starting from kindergarten for all employee's families. It has scientific research centers, including basic research. It has full service medical division enough for all the employees and for some privileged outsiders. It has recreational facilities.
When a Russian police officer takes a vacation he goes to a police owned spa hotel where he gets police doctors medical care, food preprepared by police employees, and massages from a girl employed by the police. All of them are counted in the numbers quoted.
The real number of police officers are way closer to what I mentioned initially and likely lower than Finland's.
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