Oregon senator threatens to filibuster any attempt to weaken encryption

Ron Wyden, a vocal privacy advocate, said he would ‘use my power’ to block legislation regulating what data tech firms must provide to investigatorsUS senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a vocal privacy advocate, threatened to filibuster any attempt by his colleagues to legislate that US technology companies be able to break their own encryption.Speaking at RightsCon, a privacy-focused technology conference in San Francisco put on by AccessNow, Wyden warned the audience that he would &ldquo