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On the recordJuly 7, 2015
Could you look to CALEA or maybe what other countries have done to address the 'Going Dark' program with data encryption as a model for this Congress to act?
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Senator Cotton suggests using CALEA as a model for current encryption challenges.

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