🚨 Florida’s new “Social Media Use by Minors” bill (SB 868/HB 743) has a chilling twist: it demands platforms create backdoors to decrypt private messages.
That means:
🔓 End-to-end encryption may be turned off
📵 Disappearing messages could be banned
🧒 Minors lose digital privacy
đź’Ł All users may face weaker security
EFF warns this is a dangerous precedent that risks everyone’s online safety. Legislating away encryption doesn’t protect kids — it jeopardizes all of us.
#Cybersecurity #Privacy #Encryption #TechPolicy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/floridas-new-social-media-bill-says-quiet-part-out-loud-and-demands-encryption
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