Uh oh: Trump’s attorney general asks Facebook for ‘backdoor’ messaging access

US Attorney General Bill Barr is scheduled to make some remarks at a Justice Department event Friday focused on how tech companies promoting encryption has hampered government access to information.That's according to a New York Times preview of the event, which will come in tandem with a chilling demand from Barr: In a letter from President Trump's AG to Facebook dated October 4, Barr asks the social networking giant to immediately halt its plan to expand end-to-end encryption across the compan