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Nevada Is In Court This Morning Looking To Get A Temporary Restraining Order Blocking Meta From Using End-To-End Encryption
There have been plenty of silly lawsuits against tech companies over the last few years, but a new one from Nevada against Meta may be the most crazy — and most dangerous — that we’ve seen so far. …
The TRO request also more or less admits that Nevada cops are too fucking lazy to go through basic due process, and the fact that the 4th Amendment, combined with encryption, means they have to take an extra step to spy on people is simply a bridge too far: Meta’s response to the motion is worth reading as well, if only for the near exasperation of the company’s lawyers as to why suddenly, now, end-to-end encryption for messaging — a technology that has been available for many, many years — has become so scary and so problematic that it needs to be stopped immediately. Concurrently with its lengthy Complaint, the State served the present motion, along with two supporting declarations that purport to justify enjoining a practice that was announced two months ago (and was available for years as a nondefault setting and as a feature in other services, such as Apple’s iMessage).
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