[NEW] California Bill Seeks Phone Crypto Backdoor
https://www.onthewire.io/california-bill-seeks-phone-crypto-backdoor/
A week after a New York legislator introduced a bill that would
require smartphone vendors to be able to decrypt users' phones
on demand from law enforcement, a California bill with the same
intent has been introduced in that state's assembly. On
Wednesday, California Assemblyman Jim Cooper submitted a bill
that has remarkably similar language to the New York measure and
would require that device manufacturers and operating system
vendors such as Apple, Samsung, and Google be able to decrypt
users' devices. The law would apply to phones sold in California
beginning Jan. 1, 2017.
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REFERENCE: Action Item: "Protecting Ourselves from Encryption Backdoors"
- http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001148.html
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