Posted on 04/14/2016 4:52:28 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Two U.S. senators on Wednesday issued a formal draft of a controversial bill that would give courts the power to order technology companies like Apple to help authorities break into encrypted devices or communications for law enforcement or intelligence purposes.
The proposal arrives just days after an earlier draft leaked online and drew fire from security researchers and civil liberties advocates who warned it would undermine Internet security and expose personal data to hackers.
Those same groups on Wednesday said the new draft is little different from the leaked version.
The bill comes as the U.S. Justice Department has redoubled its efforts to use the courts to force Apple (AAPL.O) to unlock encrypted iPhones.
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Better encryption could have kept that draft bill from leaking.
give courts the power to order technology companies like Apple to help authorities
Forced Labor??
Involuntary Servitude??
Only the feral government is allowed to have secrets.
Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security
Today, legislators published an official draft of a controversial new encryption bill, a measure seeking to compel company assistance in decrypting private communications in the wake of the San Bernardino case,” Russell Brandom reports for The Verge. “Dubbed the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, the official text is slightly modified from the version that leaked last week, but contains many of the same provisions that had infuriated privacy activists last week, including a broad view of the information providers would be expected to turn over upon request.”
“So far, technology and privacy groups have been hostile to the bill, including the Software Alliance, the App Association, and the ITIF,” Brandom reports. “The ACLU called the earlier draft ‘a clear threat to everyone’s privacy and security.’ If the bill does pass, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has pledged a legal effort that would keep the measures ‘tied up in the courts for years.'”
“But the most vocal opposition has come from within Congress itself,” Brandom reports. “Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) went so far as to pledge a filibuster of the bill if it reaches the Senate floor.”
Brandom reports, “‘No entity or individual is above the law,’ said Sen. Diane [sic] Feinstein (D-CA) in a statement.”
MacDailyNews Take: Does that also include you and your husband, Richard C. Blum, who profited from government contracts resulting from legislation that you introduced involving billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money, Dianne? Can you say “conflict of interest?” How about “nepotism?”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Again, it’s our hope that Congress will listen to the few techie members they have and not follow the whims of vapid career politicians like Dianne “Conflict of Interest” Feinstein and Richard Burr who are confused at best and traitors at worst.
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