Much better headline than WaPo ran on their version of this story.

RT: Apple, Google and 140+ tech firms urge Obama not to give police 'backdoor' access to encrypted phone data

WaPo: Tech giants don’t want Obama to give police access to encrypted phone data

Notice the difference? In WaPo's spin on it, "Tech Giants" (who are automatically unsympathetic as "giants") selfishly, or perhaps criminally, don't want Obama to let the police do their jobs. In RT's spin, "Tech firms", many of them, not just Big Search and Big iStuff, want to keep an overreaching police force from backdoor access.

I'm kind of shocked at US mainstream media's take on all the mass surveillance. Even NPR appears to tacitly approve of all of it because terrorism.