{"id":18902,"date":"2015-09-21T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18902"},"modified":"2015-09-21T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T22:11:08","slug":"wapo-obama-faces-growing-momentum-to-support-widespread-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18902","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Obama faces growing momentum to support widespread encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/tech-trade-agencies-push-to-disavow-law-requiring-decryption-of-phones\/2015\/09\/16\/1fca5f72-5adf-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html\">Obama faces growing momentum to support widespread encryption<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White House officials have backed away from seeking a legislative fix to deal with the rise of encryption on communication devices, and they are even weighing whether to publicly reject a law requiring firms to be able to unlock their customers\u2019 smartphones and apps under court order.<\/p>\n<p>For the past year, law enforcement and the intelligence community have warned that an inability to obtain decrypted data is putting public safety and national security at risk, arguing it will allow criminals and terrorists to communicate securely. They have appealed to tech companies to voluntarily come up with solutions for their own products, and they don\u2019t want to rule out legislation entirely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Obama faces growing momentum to support widespread encryption by Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson: White House officials have backed away from seeking a legislative fix to deal with the rise of encryption on communication devices, and they are even &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18902\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18903,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902\/revisions\/18903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}