Thursday, September 29, 2016

Stanford Researchers Seek Court Documents Ordering Companies to Help Government Defeat Encryption

Researchers at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) filed a petition yesterday seeking to unseal judicial records in San Francisco federal district court. Their goal is to reveal how the federal government uses U.S. law to obligate smartphone manufacturers and Internet companies to decrypt private user data, turn over encryption keys, or otherwise assist law enforcement with digital surveillance.

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This article by Riana Pfefferkorn originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on September 29, 2016 at 07:56PM

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