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AT&T CEO won’t join Tim Cook in fight against encryption backdoors

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. (credit: AT&T)

US politicians have been urging tech companies to weaken the security of smartphones and other products by inserting encryption backdoors that let the government access personal data.

Numerous tech companies—including Apple—have come out strongly against the idea, saying that encryption backdoors would expose the personal data of ordinary consumers, not just...

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Tech companies urge Congress to drop fight against net neutrality rules

Net neutrality protest at the White House in November 2014. (credit: Stephen Melkisethian)

A group of tech companies has urged Congressional leadership to abandon a GOP plan to kill the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

Budget proposals have included provisions preventing the FCC from continuing to enforce the rules that took effect in June, at least...

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