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A Florida broadsheet , whichwould have required social media companies to provide an encoding backdoorfor give up police to access user accounts and private messages , has betray to surpass into law .
TheSocial Media Use by Minorsbill was “ indefinitely postpone ” and “ retire from consideration ” in the Florida House of Representatives to begin with this week . lawmaker in the Florida Senate had already voted to advance the statute law , but a account requires both legislative chambers to pass before it can become legal philosophy .
The posting would have required social media house to “ provide a mechanics to decrypt end - to - end encryption when law of nature enforcement obtains a subpoena , ” which are typically issued by law enforcement agencies and without judicial oversight .
Digital rights group theElectronic Frontier Foundationcalled the neb “ dangerous and speechless . ” Security professional havelong arguedthat it is insufferable to create a strong back door that can not also be maliciously abused , and encryption back door put drug user data at risk of data point rupture .
