White House ‘will sit down’ with Save Crypto privacy campaigners
Dec09
on December 9, 2015
at 3:11 pm
Following the launch of a petition led by privacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and supported by tech companies including Dropbox, Mozilla and Twitter, the White House has agreed to meet those involved to talk about encryption. The Save Crypto petition, which called on the POTUS to publicly affirm his support for encryption and resist backdoors, passed the crucial 100,000 signatories mark, where the relevant government department must provide some kind of response. To his credit, the Deputy US CTO Ed Felten looks to have replied himself: This conversation about encryption is also part of a broader conversation about what we, as a nation, can do to fight terrorism…
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