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October 9, 2014

Your iPhone Is Now Encrypted. The FBI Says It'll Help Kidnappers. Who Do You Believe?

  Much of the world has been enthralled by the new iPhone 6, but civil liberties advocates have been cheering, too: Along with iOS 8, Apple made some landmark privacy improvements to your devices, which Google matched with its Android platform only hours later. Your smartphone will soon be encrypted by default, and Apple or Google claim they will not be able open it for anyone – law enforcement, the FBI and possibly the NSA – even if they wanted to. Predictably, the US government and police officials are in the midst of a misleading PR offensive to try to scare Americans into believing...