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Can a digital security commission accomplish anything?

Fedscoop: AUSTIN, Texas — A number of elected officials spent time preaching to the tech masses at the South by Southwest Interactive conference this week about the need for Congress to have a conversation about the future of digital security in the U.S. The tech masses, though, are not sure if those conversations are going to change the tenor of the debate around encryption.

Over the five-day conference, officials spoke about Capitol Hill’s efforts to weigh in on the hotly contested encryption debate. Several said lawmakers need to do a better job creating a dialogue that produces something substantial and reduces the white-hot tension between the technology community and federal law enforcement.

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