Stanford CIS

Feinstein encryption bill, opposed by Silicon Valley, likely dead

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"“That’s kind of a do-nothing idea for me,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “It seems like you’re just kicking the can down the road with a commission.”

Pfefferkorn said Congress needs to settle the debate once and for all with a national policy in support of strong encryption that declares the technology to be good for national security, the economy and civil liberties."

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