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• What the other Four Eyes make of Australia’s encryption crackdown

  Australia will push “thwarting the encryption of terrorist messaging” at a meeting of the Five Eyes nations in Canada this week.

• FBI calls for new wiretap law covering social media

  Encrypted social networking tools are hindering the FBI's ability to track terrorists and recruiters who are appealing to young people in the U.S., an FBI official told lawmakers.

• Lawmakers move to end warrantless surveillance of US residents

  A new bill in Congress would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered warrants before targeting U.S. residents in searches of electronic communications collected by the National Security Agency.

• Cerf thinks encryption back doors would be 'super risky'

  Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf argued Monday that more users should encrypt their data, and that the encryption back doors the U.S. FBI and other law enforcement agencies are asking for will weaken online security.

• Lawmakers criticize FBI's request for encryption back doors

  U.S. lawmakers are skeptical of an FBI request for Congress to mandate encryption workarounds in smartphones, with critics saying Wednesday that back doors would create new vulnerabilities that bad guys can exploit.

• Obama administration's encryption concerns meant to start a debate

  U.S. President Barack Obama's administration still believes in the use of encryption to protect digital information, even after top officials have questioned how law enforcement agencies will get access to data on encrypted devices, a White House advisor said.

• NSA director wants gov't access to encrypted communications

  It probably comes as no surprise that the director of the U.S. National Security Agency wants access to encrypted data on computers and other devices.

• FBI director again points to North Korea for Sony attack

  North Korean hackers left footprints when they breached Sony Pictures Entertainment late last year, the director of the FBI said Wednesday.

• US DOJ: Companies need to trust gov't on cybersecurity

  The U.S. fight against cybercrime would be more effective if companies put more trust in the country's law enforcement agencies, a top U.S. Department of Justice official said.

• FBI director calls for greater police access to communications

  Apple and Google should reconsider their plans to enable encryption by default on their smartphones, and the U.S. Congress should pass a law requiring that all communication tools allow police access to user data, U.S. FBI Director James Comey said.

• FBI director concerned about encryption on smartphones

  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is concerned about moves by Apple and Google to include encryption on smartphones, the agency's director said Thursday.