AT&T’s CEO claims corporations have no say in the encryption debate

When it comes to respecting the privacy of its users and rejecting profligate government surveillance, few companies have as bad of a track record as AT&T, which seems to go out of its way to help the government spy on its users. That’s why it’s not all that surprising to hear AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson say that corporations shouldn’t have any say in whether encryption is right or wrong, and that the government should be the one to decide. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Stephenson mentioned Tim Cook directly, who has been extremely vocal in his support for unbreakable encryption, saying that while he understands Cooks decision, he simply doesn’t have a say in the matter.