FBI worries Facebook’s privacy first policy will be a ‘child predator’s dream’

&gt; I can understand director Wray’s frustration.<p>The surveillance state is growing daily, cell-phones and license plates and faces are getting increasingly tracked, and even with encryption, they&#x27;ll have access to all the metadata of who contacted who, when, and how often (based on which the US military say they kill), so I really don&#x27;t see what he has to be frustrated about. Even without message content, he has vastly more data available than at any point in history, including under the Stasi!<p>Of course I&#x27;m assuming once there is not an epidemic of terrorism and child molestation after Facebook implements encryption, all of these intelligence agencies will apologize and stop pushing for more surveillance powers.

This is essentially the same &quot;but what about the children&quot; argument the government has been using for decades to keep people from using effective cryptography.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure the Clinton administration used it to justify the Clipper chip.