IT industry highlights Trump's get-tough stance on cyber criminals

The information technology industry is citing President-elect Donald Trump's tough stance on cyber criminals and pursuing Chinese hackers, while noting that as a candidate he supported a weakening of encryption protections but took no position on a number of other data-related issues, such as artificial intelligence, commercial data privacy and internet governance.

“Trump has argued that the United States has obsolete cybersecurity capabilities and that it is falling further behind other countries,” writes the Information Technology Industry Foundation in its...