When asked if companies like Apple and Google should be able to encrypt their phones, Clinton said “you have a classic hard choice.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a keynote address at the Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Clinton made the comments during a question and answer session at a conference in Santa Clara, California. When Re/code's Kara Swisher asked Clinton if companies should be allowed to encrypt their operating systems — something Apple and Google have pursued in the name of consumer privacy — Clinton responded by saying: "I think you have a classic hard choice."
Clinton went on to say that people have a "legitimate right to privacy" and "we've got to figure out his how you get the right balance."
But her answer still seemed to leave the door open to some types of collection by the government.
"We also don't want to find ourselves in a position where it's a legitimate security threat we're facing and we can't figure out how to address it because we have no way in to whatever is holding the information," Clinton said.
She went on to describe top level government intelligence meetings where leaders "know there's something going to happen and we're trying to figure out how to get through the door that has been locked."
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