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Feinstein encryption bill, opposed by Silicon Valley, likely dead
Sacramento Bee ^ | July 13, 2016 | BY SEAN COCKERHAM

Posted on 07/14/2016 7:18:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker

Seven months after 14 people died in the San Bernardino terror attack, the push by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein to give law enforcement access to encrypted cellphone data has fizzled.

A draft bill by Feinstein and Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, was panned by technology companies and never introduced, while a new report from the House Homeland Security Committee declares that the proposal and others floated in Congress “provide little guarantee of successfully addressing the issue.”

Susan Hennessey, a former National Security Agency lawyer and now a cybersecurity expert at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, said Feinstein’s proposal is unlikely to see the light of day given the fierce opposition in Silicon Valley and Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; fbi; iphone; privacy

1 posted on 07/14/2016 7:18:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: dayglored; ShadowAce; ThunderSleeps; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; Abundy; Action-America; ...
Diane Feinstein's cellphone Encryption Bil is dead for now. . . — PING!


Feinstein's Ill-advised Phone Encryption Bill DEAD!
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2 posted on 07/14/2016 7:21:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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I demand access to 24/7 ‘critter body cam audio and video.


3 posted on 07/14/2016 7:22:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Swordmaker

Democrats - importing muslims and then taking away civil rights of Americans when these very same muslims kill and murder Americans.


4 posted on 07/14/2016 7:25:28 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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‘Rats use gunz to kill. Conservatives use guns to defend against ‘Rats.


5 posted on 07/14/2016 7:30:32 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Swordmaker

I read it too fast, I swore it said:
Feinstein likely dead
My heart raced briefly.
(is /s really necessary?)


6 posted on 07/14/2016 7:31:56 PM PDT by ri4dc (We only can succeed if we win. I am sensing a landslide in the making. MAGA)
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To: Swordmaker
I was quickly scanning the headline and only saw "Feinstein likely dead" and my heart skipped a beat! lol
7 posted on 07/14/2016 7:39:16 PM PDT by mkjessup (Tie Hillary to the tracks, the TRUMP TRAIN is comin' !! (wooo wooo, you b*tch, wooo wooo!))
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Great minds FRiend!! lol


8 posted on 07/14/2016 7:39:35 PM PDT by mkjessup (Tie Hillary to the tracks, the TRUMP TRAIN is comin' !! (wooo wooo, you b*tch, wooo wooo!))
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To: Swordmaker

A draft bill that was never even introduced. A fitting fate. May all that follow in similar ways meet that same fate.


9 posted on 07/14/2016 7:55:08 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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Typical Democrat thinking - there is no social ill that can’t be alleviated by a 700 page bill that nobody has completely read. :)


10 posted on 07/15/2016 6:19:23 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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