Cybersecurity
Obama Wants Silicon Valley's Help to Fight Terror Online
- President calls on tech firms to work with law enforcement
- U.S. concerned encryption, social media are used by extremists
Obama: We Will Hunt Down Plotters
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President Barack Obama asked Silicon Valley firms to work with U.S. law enforcement authorities to prevent terrorists from using social media and encryption technologies, in a speech intended to reassure Americans rattled by attacks in Paris and California.
“I will urge high tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorist leaders to use technology to escape from justice,” Obama said in a televised address Sunday from the Oval Office.