Google’s Schmidt Says Encrypted Phones Won’t Thwart Police – WSJ

Data Security is complicated. Federal statutes and rules control on one level. State statutes and rules compliment and add to federal requirements.  Legislation will be focused on keeping the bad guys out of your personal and private information. This protection from data breaches will focus on state causes of actions to protect businesses; additional security parameters for the banking industry; and state criminal causes of action galore.

Sometimes the bad guys who should be kept out of your personal and private information is law enforcement. Most of us think law enforcement can’t go on fishing expeditions for information and that law enforcement needs warrants. Such is not true. Here’s Google’s CEO talking about it to the WallStreet Journal. [WSJ]