Data Privacy Debate – Major Events, 2013 – 2016 Edward Snowden (Jun-13) Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill (Apr-16) Former CIA contractor leaked classified information to media Proposed law that would require technology companies & phone about internet & phone surveillance by USA intelligence. manufacturers to decrypt customer data at a court’s request. Apple vs. FBI (Feb-16) Microsoft Lawsuit (Apr 16) FBI claimed it needed Apple to provide access to an iPhone Files lawsuit for right to be able to tell customers when law owned by a man who committed a mass shooting in San enforcement officials request their emails & other data. Bernardino, CA, so that the agency could recover information for its investigation. Request was denied by a federal judge in New York. . WhatsApp’s Default End-to-End Encryption Apple Hires Data Security Expert (Apr-16) (May-16) WhatsApp implements end-to-end encryption as default Jon Callas, who co-founded several well-respected secure setting to protect communications of their 1B monthly active communications companies including PGP Corp, Silent Circle and users worldwide. Blackphone, rejoins Apple (he was also an employee in the 1990s and again between 2009 and 2011, when he designed an encryption system to protect data stored on a Macintosh computer). Source: NY Times, CNBC, Reuters, Time, Washington Post, WhatsApp. KPCB INTERNET TRENDS 2016 | PAGE 207