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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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[–] redlightdistrict@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does though, by holding them accountable if they "on purpose" blind themselves. Which is E2EE

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

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.

[–] redlightdistrict@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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.