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New House Bill Aims to Uphold Device Encryption

Phenny Lynn Palec   |

Feb 12, 2016 07:26 AM EST

When the United States government started promoting the idea of installing backdoors on computers and devices in order to help in criminal investigations, several tech companies jumped in alarm, citing some serious security and privacy repercussions of the proposal. Now, two lawmakers have proposed a House bill that if approved, will prevent any state or even local government bodies from forcing tech companies to create backdoors on their software or hardware products.