Privacy setback: Several lawmakers and US intelligence officials have seized on the attacks to lobby for backdoors.
WASHINGTON: The deadly attacks in Paris are reigniting a debate over whether US government spies should have easy access to encrypted messages flowing across the Internet.
Intelligence agencies have long argued for so-called "backdoors" that would enable them to monitor encrypted e-mail messages, chat applications, phone calls and other types of electronic communications. But privacy advocates and technology companies staunchly oppose such backdoors and have successfully beaten back all legislative efforts to require them.
