FBI Says Once Again It Can't Get Into a Gunman's Mobile Phone
- Commercial encryption versus investigators’ needs is an issue
- Encryption gained attention in earlier California shooting
A police officer ties off crime scene tape near a small memorial close to the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on Nov. 7.
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The FBI hasn’t been able to access the data inside the mobile phone of the gunman in Sunday’s Texas church massacre, renewing tension between tech companies that protect devices with encryption and law enforcement agencies investigating crimes.
Officials sent the phone belonging to Devin P. Kelley to a Federal Bureau of Investigation facility in Quantico, Virginia, where experts were examining it, said Christopher Combs, special agent in charge in San Antonio, Texas. Kelley walked into a church outside San Antonio and killed more than two dozen people, authorities said.