The Florida bill, which required social media companies to provide encrypted backdoors to allow police to access user accounts and private messages, could not be handed over to the law.
The use of social media under the minor bill was “indefinitely postponed” and “withdrawed from consideration” in the Florida House earlier this week. While Florida Senate lawmakers have already voted to advance the law, the bill requires it to pass both legislative rooms before it becomes law.
The bill would have required social media companies to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.
The Digital Rights Group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the bill “dangerous and stupid.” Security experts have long argued that it is impossible to create a secure backdoor that cannot be maliciously abused, and the background to encryption puts user data at the risk of data breaches.