Top FBI and Justice Department officials have been on Capitol Hill this week to discuss encryption technology and the balance between public safety and privacy. Security features that are put in place to keep data private is working a little too well, they claim. Internet "dark space," or encrypted data, makes it harder for the feds to monitor and intercept messages from terrorist suspects, who reach U.S. followers online, and pedophiles, who conceal pornographic images. So law enforcement wants "keys" to unlock the data, but Silicon Valley is pushing back.
Tech companies say encryption protects from hackers and that their customers have a right to private communications.
