Encryption Is About Assessing Options, not Picking Sides, Upton Writes

House Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said encryption isn't about picking sides, but assessing options. "Identifying a solution to this problem may involve trade-offs and compromise, on both sides, but ultimately it comes down to what society accepts as the appropriate balance between government access to encryption and the security of encrypted technologies,” he wrote on Medium, to which his office linked in a news release Wednesday. A House Commerce subcommittee last week held a hearing about the issue and included testimony from several law enforcement and technology experts (see 1604190002).