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Re:The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption by dropoutcoder on Friday March 06, 2020 @08:37PM (#22509110)
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would disagree with you, just as one example.
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Re:The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption by imgabe on Friday March 06, 2020 @09:01PM (#22509213)
They would disagree that the cost outweighs the benefit?

Of course, they are not the ones bearing the cost of having their privacy invaded despite doing nothing wrong. I'm talking about the cost/benefit to society as a whole, not one particular actor. We don't need to rearrange all of society to make life convenient for the SEC or any other single agency.

I'm sure it would also be convenient for law enforcement if they could conduct warrentless searches and detain suspects indefinitely without access to counsel, but you know there's a reason we don't allow that.

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