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Will Nevada Kill End-To-End Encryption Next Week?
Last month, we wrote about Nevada’s Attorney General filing an absolutely preposterous, but extremely dangerous, legal filing, demanding that a court bar Meta from offering end-to-end encryption fo…
Earlier this week, a bunch of organizations, including the ACLU, EFF, Fight for the Future, Internet Society, Signal, and Mozilla all filed an amicus brief that I’d describe as 43-pages of “what the fuck is this, I don’t even…” It is especially ill-advised to upend decades-old, encryption- specific policies based on a reinterpretation of a broad, general purpose law such as the Nevada Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act, N.R.S. It can hardly be “unconscionable” for Meta to upgrade its product to meet the security and privacy standards that other exceedingly popular products-ones the Attorney General has not challenged have offered to the public for years.
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