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12-12-2014, 07:03 AM
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Apple both seem to understand the marketplace.
Apple is betting bipartisan concern about intrusive government snooping will help sell phones and Paul is creating a pretty impressive presidential campaign based on the same play.
Apple and Google have rolled out new default encryption technologies on their latest phones that even the companies would not be able to unlock. This means the companies would not be able to comply with court orders to turn copies of their customer’s communications over to law enforcement. In what seems to be a coordinated counter, the Director of the FBI James Comey and the NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton fired back about the challenge this would pose to the legitimate needs of law enforcement.
Comey got the contours of the debate just right.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-and-apple-have-the-same-strategy-2014-12#ixzz3Lau73H4P
Apple is betting bipartisan concern about intrusive government snooping will help sell phones and Paul is creating a pretty impressive presidential campaign based on the same play.
Apple and Google have rolled out new default encryption technologies on their latest phones that even the companies would not be able to unlock. This means the companies would not be able to comply with court orders to turn copies of their customer’s communications over to law enforcement. In what seems to be a coordinated counter, the Director of the FBI James Comey and the NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton fired back about the challenge this would pose to the legitimate needs of law enforcement.
Comey got the contours of the debate just right.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-and-apple-have-the-same-strategy-2014-12#ixzz3Lau73H4P