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FBI Admits Vastly Inflating Number of Unsearchable Mobile Devices

Loaded on Dec. 5, 2018 published in Criminal Legal News December, 2018, page 35
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Cell Phone Access, FBI. Location: United States of America.

For seven months, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray argued that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies needed “exceptional access” to be built into mobile devices, such as cellphones and tablets. To justify his argument, he said that in 2017 the FBI had been “unable to access the content of ...

 

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