Over 60 organizations spoke out against the new bill which could threaten encryption and incentivize increased surveillance.
would prevent encryption from being the
“sole evidence” of a providers’ liability for CSAM material but added the bill would not offer total exemption encryption either.“get-out-of-jail-free card.” In other words, Blumenthal is saying that a company can’t be sued over CSAM just because they use encryption but he’s admitting that companies won’t be able to claim that their inability to see into encrypted communications exempts them from liability. Okay.
Concerned internet users have made their opinion about the EARN IT Act clear. A petition opposing the billsignatures at the time of writing. Meanwhile, more than 60 organizations including the Center for Democracy and Technology, the ACLU, and Access Now, jointly sent a“By opening providers up to significantly expanded liability, the bill would make it far riskier for platforms to host user-generated content,” the organizations wrote.
Those liability threats could cause providers to stop hosting user content altogether. On the other hand, providers that do continue to host users generated content would potentially have more of an incentive to engage in overbroad censorship of online speech,” particularly of LGBTQ users. And while EARN IT proponents continually fall back on the bill’s supposed boon for child safety online, rights groups argue the bill would actually make it
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