The NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone's Encrypted Data Encryption can protect personal data from government intrusion, which means the government wants the key to break it. Like it or not, you are your data. In this day and age, your receipts, social media activity, public records, GPS data, and internet search history are the proof of who you are. And while you may have thought you had secrets, the Federal Government would like the rest of them...... .....[...]