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) has advanced to the Senate floor.

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.

  • redlightdistrict@beehaw.org
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    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.