McCain calls for encryption standards

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Sen. John McCain criticized encryption technology, which allows terror suspects to communicate without the government seeing it, in an editorial over the weekend, and renewed a call for legislation to prohibit it.

“Some technologists and Silicon Valley executives argue that any efforts by the government to ensure law-enforcement access to encrypted information will undermine users’ privacy and make them less secure,” the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee wrote in the op-ed for Bloomberg.

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