One agency wants Internet wiretaps, another wants privacy protected

By Aliya Sternstein, Nextgov

Likewise, Seth Schoen, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, noted, "I think there's an interesting irony" given the news the FBI is planning "to force technology developers to build backdoors in their security systems. . . . Law enforcement's desires for backdoors in communications infrastructure could easily come in direct conflict with the government's desire to strengthen computer security."

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