AT&T CEO won’t join Tim Cook in fight against encryption backdoors
by Jon Brodkin from Ars Technica - All content on (#11ENT)
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. (credit: AT&T)
US politicians have been urging tech companies to weaken the security of smartphones and other products by inserting encryption backdoors that let the government access personal data.
Numerous tech companies-including Apple-have come out strongly against the idea, saying that encryption backdoors would expose the personal data of ordinary consumers, not just terrorists.
But tech company leaders aren't all joining the fight against the deliberate weakening of encryption. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said this week that AT&T, Apple, and other tech companies shouldn't have any say in the debate.
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