Rights: Senate draft bill requires companies extract, decrypt data for law enforcement

Two high-ranking U.S. senators on Wednesday released to the public a proposed bill that would grant courts the authority to order tech companies dealing in hardware, software or services help law enforcement agencies gain access to encrypted communications.

Rights: Senate draft bill requires companies extract, decrypt data for law enforcement 16525-13437-16290-12974-16150-12793-160309-Intelligence-l-l-l

Rights: Senate draft bill requires companies extract, decrypt data for law enforcement 16525-13437-16290-12974-16150-12793-160309-Intelligence-l-l-l

The draft bill, dubbed "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016," was penned by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in a bid to streamline government requests for encrypted data. In its current form, the legislation would require companies like Apple to bypass their own security measures, access target data and present it to law enforcement agencies in an "intelligible" — decrypted — format.

As applied to Apple's recent kerfuffle with the FBI over a passcode locked iPhone connected to last year's San Bernardino massacre, the company would have been forced to "provide, in a timely manner, responsive, intelligible information or data, or appropriate technical assistance to obtain such information or data" after having received a court order demanding as much.

Importantly, the bill requires data be handed over in an "intelligible" format, defined as information or data that has either never been encrypted, or has been encrypted and subsequently decrypted for authorities. Since the legislation does not refer to a specific data gathering methodologies, or limitation thereof, the onus of thwarting built-in security measures, extracting data and decrypting it falls solely on the company.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/13/senate-draft-bill-on-encryption-is-purposely-vague-

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Quote :: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

Rights: Senate draft bill requires companies extract, decrypt data for law enforcement

Rights: Senate draft bill requires companies extract, decrypt data for law enforcement

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