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| | Update May 5, 2025: In a win for privacy and encryption, the Florida Legislature ended its regular 2025 session on May 2 without passing SB 868 / HB 743.At least Florida's SB 868/HB 743, "Social Media Use By Minors" bill isn't beating around the bush when it states that it would require "social...
| | excited-pixels.com
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| | Matt Burgess at Wired has a good summary article on the current (and always ongoing) debate concerning the availability of strong encryption. In short, he sees three 'classes' of argument which are aimed at preventing individuals from protecting their communications (and their personal information) with robust encryption. Governments or law enforcement agencies are asking for...
| | berthub.eu
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| | A quick update - The European Commission and EU member states have been pondering, for years now, if they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For various reasons it is a horrendous idea to break end to end encryption in this likely highly ineffective way. Variations of the proposal have also included a mandate to perform such scanning of images using AI, and even to also read our text messages to see if we aren't "grooming" children.
| | interestingengineering.com
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