FBI Director Christopher Wray calls encryption a “major public safety issue” Wray: In fiscal 2017, FBI investigators were stymied in their attempts to obtain the contents of 7,775 devices involved in investigations in which a judge had authorized access. Wray urges a good-faith collaboration from all sides to strike a balance that respects strong privacy and security without unreasonably hindering law-enforcement investigations. The friction between the two is longstanding, and flared up with the FBI’s struggle to gain access to the iPhone of one of the shooters in the 2015 massacre in San Bernardino, California.”]