Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed dangerous and dumb | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- Florida lawmakers unanimously approved pushing the bill through committee
- The “Social Media Use by Minors’ (SB 868) bill would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena” The bill would also require social media companies to allow parents or guardians access to a child’s account
A Florida draft bill that would require social media companies to provide encryption backdoors for law enforcement officials to access user accounts has cleared a key legislative hurdle and will now [+2765 chars]
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