Making Sense of EARN IT & LAED Bills' Implications for Crypto
"Given that many US government leaders have led decades-long history of opposition to private use of digital encryption, cybersecurity and privacy advocate…
"Given that many US government leaders have led decades-long history of opposition to private use of digital encryption, cybersecurity and privacy advocate…
"This could all lead to soaring fines, warned Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowledge officer at the International Association of Privacy Professiona…
"The bill is a “full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in all its forms,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity…
"The initial reaction by academics, cryptographers, technologists, and human rights advocates to the latest bill was swift and harsh. “This bill is the enc…
"Privacy advocates were skeptical that the federal government would be satisfied with just unlocking seized phones, though, and LAEDA’s requirement of lawf…
"But Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, said the horrifying nature of his crimes should not obscure the need for more t…
"Danielle Citron, a professor the Boston University School of Law, has long argued that Section 230 should not be a “free pass,” but rather contingent on c…
"12:45pm: Professor van Schewick: There is no Net Neutrality left at the federal level in the US. I don’t think any of you is looking at the current US sys…
""This is the full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption we've been fearing would come, but which no lawmaker previously had dared to put forth,&q…
"Daphne Keller, director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center Program on Platform Regulation, agreed with the value of allowing companies to form their own…
""Requiring the ability to intercept and get unencrypted data "on the wire" in real time does basically mean this is the outright ban on end…
"Barbara van Schewick, Stanford law professor, argued in her filing that regulation should make clear that TMPs should be as “application agnostic” as poss…