Armed With Fear, Not Facts, Officials Go After Encryption in Wake of Paris

Armed With Fear, Not Facts, Officials Go After Encryption in Wake of Paris

Echoing the post-9/11 era, intelligence officials and lawmakers are exploiting Friday’s massacre to expand mass surveillance

Despite no available evidence that terror suspects used encryption to plan the Paris attacks, U.S. intelligence officials and lawmakers are seizing on the massacre to demand access to protected communications—in what critics warn is a blatant attempt to exploit fear in order to expand state surveillance.