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Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption, requires online companies to report drug activity (therecord.media)
submitted 1 year ago by thejml@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org
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A bill requiring social media companies, encrypted communications providers and other online services to report drug activity on their platforms to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) advanced to the Senate floor Thursday, alarming privacy advocates who say the legislation turns the companies into de facto drug enforcement agents and exposes many of them to liability for providing end-to-end encryption.

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[–] blaine@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only way you could think this bill targets end-to-end encryption is if you only read the terrible headline and didn't bother to read the actual bill. Before you freak out about paragraph 4, be sure to look at paragraphs 1-3.

[–] falsem@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's doesn't sound like a 4th amendment violation or anything.

[–] blaine@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Not only does this bill not have anything to do with searches or seizures by the government, it goes out of its way not to require cloud providers to perform any searches of their own. Where are you seeing a 4th amendment violation?