The Web Data War Is On

... for several weeks now. It has become a symbol of political struggles in many countries between governments that are fighting for access to certain data they need to track down terrorist activity and major tech companies that had started implementing data encryption technology after the shock caused by Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations of massive NSA spying. What conclusions about who influences what on the Internet can be drawn from this standoff? First of all, the conflict between Apple and ...