Deceptive title, unintentionally.<p>FTA: &quot;Instead, the Post reports, the “administration will continue trying to persuade companies that have moved to encrypt their customers’ data to create a way for the government to still peer into people’s data when needed for criminal or terrorism investigations.”<p>While eschewing attempts to legislatively mandate that tech companies build backdoors into their services, the president is continuing the status quo – that is, informally pressuring companies to give the government access to unencrypted data.&quot;<p>Status quo is that the government doesn&#x27;t respect the privacy of its citizens.