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April 15, 2015

As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security

In regards to the debate about end-to-end encryption, Marc Zwillinger was quoted in the Washington Post saying, “I don’t believe that law enforcement has an absolute right to gain access to every way in which two people may choose to communicate. And I don’t think our Founding Fathers would think so, either. The fact that the Constitution offers a process for obtaining a search warrant where there is probable cause is not support for the notion that it should be illegal to make an unbreakable lock. These are two distinct concepts.”