When it was first released back in April, a “discussion draft” of the Compliance With Court Orders Act sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Richard Burr (R-NC) met with near universal derision from privacy advocates and security experts. (Your humble author was among the critics.) In the wake of that chilly reception, press reports were declaring the bill effectively dead just weeks later, even as law enforcement and intelligence officials insisted they would continue pressing for a solution to the putative “going dark” problem that encryption creates for government eavesdroppers. Feinstein and Burr, however, appear not to have given up on their baby: Their offices have been circulating a series of proposed changes to the bill, presumably in hopes of making it more palatable to stakeholders. I recently got a look at some of those proposed changes. (NB: I referred to these in an earlier version of this post to a “revised draft”, which probably suggested something relatively finalized and ready to introduce. I’ve edited the post to more accurately characterize these as changes to the previously circulated draft that are under consideration.)
Read more at https://www.cato.org/blog/feinstein-burr-20-crypto-backdoor-bill-still-alive
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