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.
This doesn’t target E2EE - that’s the whole point of E2EE. It does target everyone else, though.
It does though, by holding them accountable if they “on purpose” blind themselves. Which is E2EE
So you can only trust a) open source or b) safe countries. Which is basically already the situation.
So you can only trust a) open source or b) safe countries. Which is basically already the situation.
It does though, by holding them accountable if they “on purpose” blind themselves. Which is E2EE
Except there are specific exclusions in the bill to address this. Hell, the three paragraphs before the one mentioning “deliberately blinding” are all dedicated to explaining why it doesn’t apply to end-to-end encryption.
Here is the exert from the bill - so long as the provider does not deliberately blind itself to those violations. Sadly this would target E2EE specifically as they can say by providing a way to blind the traffic, they are held accountable.