Oversight

The Trump Administration’s Lies About Encryption Are Putting Our Privacy in Danger

Attorney General William Barr is demanding Apple weaken its encryption — with disastrous implications for everyone’s security

Trevor Timm
GEN
Published in
4 min readJan 15, 2020

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Trevor Timm
GEN
Writer for

Trevor Timm is the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. His writing has appeared the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Intercept.