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Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed ‘dangerous and dumb’
A digital rights group blasted the Florida bill, but lawmakers voted to advanced the draft law.
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 advance to the state’s Senate floor for a vote. Critics, including the tech companies and industry organizations that oppose the bill, have long argued that weakening encryption would make people less safe by compromising the security of their private messages, and could result in data breaches. It’s not clear if the proposed Florida bill, as written, would require social media companies to comply with only a subpoena, which are typically issued by law enforcement agencies and without judicial oversight.
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