Encryption Is About Assessing Options, not Picking Sides, Upton Writes
House Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said encryption isn't about picking sides, but assessing options. "Identifying a solution to this problem may involve trade-offs and compromise, on both sides, but ultimately it comes down to what society accepts as the…
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appropriate balance between government access to encryption and the security of encrypted technologies,” he wrote on Medium, to which his office linked in a news release Wednesday. A House Commerce subcommittee last week held a hearing about the issue and included testimony from several law enforcement and technology experts (see 1604190002).