Silicon Valley spars with President Obama over 'backdoor' surveillance

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Silicon Valley and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are lining up against the Obama Administration, criticizing what they see as a lack of support for total online privacy. The steady rise of sophisticated privacy techniques such as encryption and anonymity software has put the government in a difficult position -- trying to support the right to privacy while figuring out how to prevent people from evading law enforcement.


Silicon Valley spars with President Obama over 'backdoor' surveillance