Congressional report sides with Apple on encryption debate

CIO: The U.S. is better off supporting strong encryption that trying to weaken it, according to a new congressional report that stands at odds with the FBI’s push to install backdoors into tech products.

On Tuesday, a bipartisan congressional panel published a year-end report, advising the U.S. to explore other solutions to the encryption debate.

“Any measure that weakens encryption works against the national interest,” the report said.

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