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Senate Judiciary Committee Holds FBI Oversight Hearing

The Senate Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing with FBI Director James Comey. Following the calls of some political leaders to exclude Muslims from the United States, Senator Leahy warned leaders to not "succumb to the politics of fear and lose sight of our fundamental American values." Director Comey continued to advocate for weakened encryption to enable law enforcement access to private communications. EPIC has championed strong encryption and urged President Obama to reject proposals to weaken encryption. EPIC has also urged oversight of the FBI's Next Generation Identification program, a massive biometric database, that lacks appropriate privacy safeguards.

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