DOJ Launches New Cybercrime Unit, Claims Privacy Top Priority

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 5, 2014 @05:26AM from the look-we're-helping-see-look dept.

msm1267 writes: Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, announced on Thursday the creation of a new Cybercrime Unit, tasked with enhancing public-private security efforts. A large part of the Cybersecurity Unit's mission will be to quell the growing distrust many Americans have toward law enforcement's high-tech investigative techniques. (Even if that lack of trust, as Caldwell claimed, is based largely on misinformation about the technical abilities of the law enforcement tools and the manners in which they are used.) "In fact, almost every decision we make during an investigation requires us to weigh the effect on privacy and civil liberties, and we take that responsibility seriously," Caldwell said. "Privacy concerns are not just tacked onto our investigations, they are baked in."

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Let me be the first to say.... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-05 05:32 · Score: 5, Funny

aaaaaahahahahahahaha
I'll trust you more when... by RandomFactor · 2014-12-05 05:34 · Score: 5, Insightful

You stop throwing the 'T' word around at companies/people for doing things like encrypting our handheld devices.

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So let me see if I get this right. by therealkevinkretz · 2014-12-05 05:35 · Score: 5, Interesting

... the head of one agency in the executive branch has said that it needs backdoors to be installed in devices (or the terrorists win). And now there's another agency (in the *same department*) whose "top priority" is the exact opposite?