Having regard to the 2016 presidential candidates Surveillance wing computing and encryption

The next commander in chief faces tough questions about national security and encryption. It is likely that the current FBI vs Apple battle encrypted consume the election of 2016 and spill into the next presidency. And the next leader of the US You will have to answer complicated, persistent questions surrounding the future of the NSA and its power to collect data on US citizens.

Clinton and Sanders are not really disagree on many things, but vigilance is rarely a point of contention. In 2001, Clinton voted for the Patriot Act, thereby extending the powers of NSA surveillance. Sanders did not. Clinton supported the proposed reform of the NSA in 2015. Sanders did not, saying that the reforms do not go far enough.

In an interview with Kara Swisher Recode, Clinton said the country needs to find out what level of monitoring was acceptable and out of their ideological corners. Clinton also had some puzzling answers to the question of encryption and recently took a tougher stance, calling for a "Manhattan Project-like" approach to solving the problems of monitoring and encryption. At a recent town hall Nevada, Clinton called encryption debate Apple / FBI "one of the most difficult dilemmas faced with."

Clinton also believes that Snowden should "face the music" for their actions. The feeling is mutual .

Bernie Sanders is probably the most security conscious person running for president in 2016. The senator from Vermont has a special ability to detect legislation that could have serious consequences for the privacy of Americans. But even Sanders understands the need to answer the question of encryption.

However, instead of simply asking Silicon Valley to find a solution, Sanders puts the onus on the government. During the fourth Democratic debate, he said that "public policy has not been updated with the explosion of technology", but admitted the needs of governments can help make the activity of ISIS "lone wolf".

Sanders has openly tweeted that the NSA is "out of control" and "acting in an unconstitutional manner", and a report of time, Sanders called the NSA "Orwellian", which is definitely not a nod to the literary skill of the agency . But Sanders does not completely abandon the intelligence agencies. When asked which side was in the recent Apple against FBI enigma encryption, simply stated, "I am in so much."

Trump had not explicitly addressed until encryption issues came out in support of the FBI as the agency seeks to force Apple to help the government to unlock the iPhone of a suspected terrorist. He suggested a boycott of Apple products until they are met, although not actually stop itself using an iPhone.

Ted Cruz bills himself as an uncompromising conservative, but has a surprisingly moderate record on surveillance. He voted in favor of the US Freedom Act, a bill to reform collection of phone records the NSA. And while later argued that expands the government's ability to collect call records, Cruz is not as strident in favor of surveillance as candidates like Marco Rubio. He has also criticized the surveillance record of the Obama Administration.

Even Rand Paul filibuster NSA supported. "It is the position of the Obama administration that the federal government has full constitutional authority to track the location of all US citizens, no matter where we walk. That's an impressive statement of power," Cruz said after obstructionism Paul.

But last year, Cruz admitted that he had not bothered to read the Act Information Exchange Cyber ​​Security (CISA), and he did not vote on it either. And in a recent local town, Cruz said that Apple must comply with the court order compelling technology company to create software to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of a suspected terrorist.

Marco Rubio is a lot like a domineering mother: He thinks that the only way to protect you is to look like a hawk no matter where you go or what you do.

Florida senator wrote an impassioned opinion piece in USA Today titled Now there is time to end the NSA program in May 2015. In the article, Rubio writes that "a major contributor to [our security] has been the development and use of tools to combat terrorism such as authorized by the Act Foreign Intelligence Surveillance and Patriot Act. "the article also allows the collection of metadata senior phone NSA, saying that" not a single documented case of abuse of this program. "of course, that is clearly wrong.

Rubio recently doubled down on its support for metadata harvesting NSA after the Slaughter of San Bernardino. "We have to have strong capabilities in intelligence gathering to disrupt plots. It is one of the reasons why he opposed this law that even some of my opponents running for president voted for the US [Freedom] Act approved ago a few months ", he said in a CBS interview this morning. "He removed the right to collect metadata, which means that you can not now access the phone records of people who either suspected of involvement in terrorism or carrying out an attack to see who were coordinating or talking . " Rubio is committed to the expansion of surveillance operations in the US .. If he wins the presidency, waiting to be tracked in all corners of the Internet you visit.

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