At the International Conference on Cyber Security in Washington on July 27, FBI Director James Comey announced that the FBI was engaged in various cybersecurity and privacy discussions with unspecified tech companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. Encryption is a hot topic in these discussions, the report states. “We are moving to a place where wide swaths of American life are absolutely private,” Comey said. “The FBI should not tell people what the answer is. Neither should companies. We have to have a conversation in this country about where we want to be.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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