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Re:Attorney General Barr and Encryption by close04 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:04PM (#20696919)
> communications of lawmakers, CEOs

> Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications.

It is AG Barr's suggestion (as far as I can tell from the quote above) that these are not regular consumers so they should get "the real thing". Everyone else would get the "inspectable encryption" version.

Re:Attorney General Barr and Encryption by jakelazaroff on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:33PM (#20697185)
That's my understanding as well, but it's a pretty insulting suggestion. Why is a business's privacy more important than my own?
Re:Attorney General Barr and Encryption by lxwang on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:12PM (#20698913)
Because businesses donate more money to politicians than you do.