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Google Allo: new messaging app is latest to fight FBI over encryption
Google on Wednesday became the latest major technology company to join a standoff with the FBI over encryption. At its developer conference, the company announced that its new messaging app, Allo, would feature an “incognito mode” that offered end-to-end encryption. Such technology can make it difficult for law enforcement to recover messages during investigations even if they have a warrant. In Washington DC, the FBI director, James Comey, has lobbied...
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Funny how it's the corporations that have to fight the government for people's rights. Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
Totally.