Homeland Security's big encryption report wasn't fact-checked
https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/08/homeland-securitys-big-encryption-report-wasnt-fact-checked/
This past week, everyone's been so focused on Hillary and
Trump that few noticed that the Majority Staff of the House
Homeland Security Committee finally released its encryption
report -- with some pretty big falsehoods in it. "Going Dark,
Going Forward: A Primer on the Encryption Debate" is a guide
for Congress and stakeholders that makes me wonder if we have
a full-blown American hiring crisis for fact-checkers. The
report relied on more than "100 meetings with ... experts
from the technology industry, federal, state, and local law
enforcement, privacy and civil liberties, computer science and
cryptology, economics, law and academia, and the Intelligence
Community." And just a little bit of creative license.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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