Topic: FBI's director isn't happy with Apple's & Google's plans about encryption...

[Samker]

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is concerned about moves by Apple and Google to include encryption on smartphones, the agency’s director said Thursday.

Quick law enforcement access to the contents of smartphones could save lives in some kidnapping and terrorism cases, FBI Director James Comey said in a briefing with some reporters. Comey said he’s concerned that smartphone companies are marketing “something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law,” according to news reports: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/09/25/fbi-director-concerned-about-new-smartphone-encryption/

An FBI spokesman confirmed the general direction of Comey’s remarks. The FBI has contacted Apple and Google about their encryption plans, Comey told a group of reporters who regularly cover his agency.

Just last week, Google announced it would be turning on data encryption by default in the next version of Android: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2686041/google-to-turn-on-encryption-by-default-in-next-android-version.html
Apple, with the release of iOS 8 earlier this month, allowed iPhone and iPad users to encrypt most personal data with a password: http://www.csoonline.com/article/2686204/data-protection/here-are-the-limits-of-apples-ios-8-privacy-features.html

Comey’s remarks, prompted by a reporter’s question, came just days after Ronald Hosko, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund and former assistant director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division, decried mobile phone encryption in a column in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/23/i-helped-save-a-kidnapped-man-from-murder-with-apples-new-encryption-rules-we-never-wouldve-found-him/

Smartphone companies shouldn’t give criminals “one more tool,” he wrote. “Apple’s and Android’s new protections will protect many thousands of criminals who seek to do us great harm, physically or financially. They will protect those who desperately need to be stopped from lawful, authorized, and entirely necessary safety and security efforts. And they will make it impossible for police to access crucial information, even with a warrant.”

Representatives of Apple and Google didn’t immediately respond to requests for comments on Comey’s concerns.

(PCW)

[Janine]

Thanks for posting this interesting news. FBI got a point there so Google and Apple should think about it more than twice. There's a terrorist group out there who are planning to ruin and kill people just for them to terrorize the world. If the encryption might help them, then it should not be allowed.

[Samker]

Thanks for posting this interesting news. FBI got a point there so Google and Apple should think about it more than twice. There's a terrorist group out there who are planning to ruin and kill people just for them to terrorize the world. If the encryption might help them, then it should not be allowed.

I agree with you about terrorist but what is with 99,99% other honest people and theirs privacy?

I do not believe government agencies, and I fear with that they might abuse the information they capture.
For example, "Muslim-Americans under surveillance by The FBI & NSA": http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,9224.0.html

P.S.

I'd like to hear the opinion of other SCF members on this subject...

[jheysen]

It's thin ice... But I like having my data secure.

[devnullius]

No trust here... Encrypt it all!!

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