Republican and Democratic senators found themselves in rare agreement Tuesday as they warned that technology companies must design their products’ encryption to comply with court orders, regardless of any cybersecurity risks
Former FBI Director James Comey used terrorism as the centerpiece of his argument about encryption, pointing to the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., as an illustration of how encryption hampered investigations.DOJ changed tactics and began focusing instead on how encryption complicates investigations of child sexual abuse
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked if Silicon Valley was prepared to accept liability for deaths that resulted from investigators’ inability to access encrypted data. The encryption hearing was billed as an examination of the technology’s “benefits and risks to public safety and privacy,” but few senators discussed encryption’s benefits or focused onThe four witnesses at the hearing were Erik Neuenschwander, manager of user privacy at Apple; Jay Sullivan, the product management director for privacy and integrity at Facebook Messenger; Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, a longtime critic of warrant-proof encryption; and University of Texas at Austin...
The companies should change their approach and ensure they can share more data with investigators, Blackburn warned. “If you all can’t do that, we will do that. But there will be a cop on the beat.”
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