FBI wants Google to provide better wiretap access

...more of same from last September

[tangor]

Top officials from the FBI traveled to Silicon Valley on Tuesday to persuade Facebook and Google executives to support a proposal that would make it easier for law enforcement to wiretap the companies' users.

FBI Director Robert Mueller III and General Counsel Valerie Caproni were scheduled to meet with “managers of several major companies” including Facebook and Google, according to The New York Times. It wasn't clear how the companies responded.

[theregister.co.uk...]

Would have posted the NYT link, but that site does require subscription

[Maurice]

or ffs try not to let the system you use to respond to law enforcement requests get hacked by the Chinese or the Russians