A Sacramento woman uses her phone on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. Hector Amezcua hamezcua@sacbee.com
Posted on 04/14/2016 1:50:05 PM PDT by Swordmaker
A national debate over smartphone encryption arrived in Sacramento on Tuesday as legislators defeated a bill penalizing companies that don’t work with courts to break into phones, siding with technology industry representatives who called the bill a dangerous affront to privacy.
The bill did not receive a vote, with members of the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection worrying the measure would undermine data security and impose a logistically untenable requirement on California companies.
Disagreement over the balance between privacy and public safety exploded into public view in recent months when the FBI demanded that Apple unlock the phone of San Bernardino massacre perpetrator Syed Farook. Apple refused to comply and ultimately the FBI devised its own way in.
Assembly Bill 1681 would authorize $2,500 penalties against phone manufacturers and operating system providers if they do not obey court orders to decrypt phones. Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove, a former sheriff’s deputy who led an Internet crimes task force, called it “mind-boggling” that search warrants allow access to peoples’ houses but not necessarily to their phones.
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I am surprised. I guess the checks cleared.
Good. Law enforcement can obtain the right to search your phone but who ever said it should be easy?
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Still, it would have been amusing for Apple to stop construction on the flying saucer and move operations lock, stock and barrel to a free state...
Encryption that can be cracked is really not encryption at all is it?
In related news, it appears that the hack of the SB iPhone yielded no info of value.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-hack-legal-ownership-no-value/
Any security is binary. . . it's secure, or it isn't. It can't be both.
Thanks for the heads up. . . new thread on this over here, thanks to your alert!
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