Why is there a push for the use of encryption backdoors?

As personal information has become king, there has been increased pressure for service providers to incorporate encryption backdoors for easy access by governments and/or law enforcement agencies.  The response for such calls has been divided which has ultimately resulted in:

• stronger end-to-end encryption by resistant companies;

• compliance by some companies that have strong relationships with the requesting agency or government; and

• an increase in hacking attempts and data breaches as it relates to encrypted data.

Read about how companies collect consumer data and why enforcement agencies seek special access to the data for their own use.