The White House is declining to offer public
support for draft legislation that would empower judges to require
technology companies such as Apple to help law enforcement crack
encrypted data, sources familiar with the discussions said.
The decision all but assures that the years-long
political impasse over encryption will continue even in the wake of the
high-profile effort by the Department of Justice to force Apple to
break into an iPhone used by a gunman in last December's shootings in
San Bernardino, California.
President Obama suggested in remarks last month that he had come around
to the view that law enforcement agencies needed to have a way to gain
access to encrypted information on smartphones.
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Source: NBC News
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