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May 20, 2016

FBI Plots Its Next Move in the Encryption Battle

“The next frontier in the battle between the FBI and technology companies over encrypted communications will be more legally complicated…The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act doesn’t cover many Internet services and expressly states that a telecommunications provider can’t be responsible for decrypting any communication if it doesn’t possess the information necessary to do so, said Zwillinger a managing member of ZwillGen Pllc…If the FBI concludes it needs access to such data, “the court system is not going to be the proper place to resolve it,” Zwillinger said.”