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The FBI expects an increase in lawsuits over the hacking of smartphones terrorists

The head of the FBI James Komi said that the US government will increase the number of trials, the results of which intelligence agencies will be allowed to hack into smartphones, reports Reuters.

During a briefing in Komi FBI said that the hacking of electronic devices are defined “methods of intelligence” in regard to not only the terrorist group “Islamic state” and other radical organizations.

The FBI Director emphasized that the debate between the U.S. Federal government and IT companies on the legal aspects of gaining access to confidential information of citizens in the interests of national security is far from complete. According to him, from October 2015, the experts investigated about 4,000 of the devices and failed to crack around 500 of them.

According to Komi, the new encryption technology in the instant messenger WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, “is seriously complicated for the FBI investigation of criminal activity”, however, the secret service has no plans to sue the company.

Number number of Americans trying to join ISIS, prohibited in Russia, was reduced to one person per month since August of last year, however, the development of the FBI is about a thousand people, according to the Bureau, involved in radical groups.

Previously, Comey said that the Bureau had paid a private company for hacking the iPhone, which belonged to the terrorist of San Bernardino, more than a million dollars. While the exact cost he did not name, saying only that the FBI paid for hacking more than he earns in seven years and four months.

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On Wednesday it reported that the Italian investigators were unable to unlock the iPhone of one of the detained members of the group, which is supposed to be engaged in the preparation of terrorist attacks in Italy and other countries, said Wednesday the Prosecutor of Bari Roberto Rossi.

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