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April 7th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
President Obama is refusing to support a proposal that would require tech corporations to assist law enforcement and government agencies in encryption data access.
At the South by Southwest conference, the president said : “My conclusion so far is you cannot take an absolutist view own this. If your argument is strong encryption no matter what, and we can and should in fact create black boxes that, I think, does not strike the kind of balance we have lived with for 200, 300 years. And it’s fetishizing our phones above every other value. That can’t be the right answer.”
The bill, championed by Senators Dianne Feinstein and Richard Barr, both members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, would give the federal judiciary the power to demand tech corporations help federal agencies; however it is vague on “what companies might have to do or the circumstances under which they could be ordered to help.”
This is a similar battle fought in the 1990s by then president Bill Clinton. The Clipper Chip Initiative (CCI) was designed to give the government to power to survey encrypted phone conversations.
At the time, the CCI was explained as: “This new technology will help companies protect proprietary information, protect the privacy of personal phone conversations and prevent unauthorized release of data transmitted electronically. At the same time this technology preserves the ability of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to intercept lawfully the phone conversations of criminals.”
Although the proposal died, it was vehemently fought against by civil liberties organizations and tech corporations to prevent the “first holy war of the information highway”.
James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), spoke at Kenyon University and revealed that the Department of Justice has a “a tool that works on a narrow slice of phones” and not the newer Apple iPhones.
The FBI wanted Apple’s assistance in opening the iPhone 5c that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook; however the day before the initial court hearing, the FBI dropped their case against Apple, claiming to have contracted Israeli mobile forensics company Cellebrite and didn’t need Apple’s help hacking into their iPhone.
Come told the audience: “The FBI is very good at keeping secrets. The people we bought this from, I know a fair amount about them and I have a high degree of confidence that they are very good at protecting it and their motivations align with ours.”
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