Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says The Quiet Part Out Loud And Demands An Encryption Backdoor

Techdirt. 2025-04-17

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At least Florida’s SB 868/HB 743, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating around the bush when it states that it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.” Usually these sorts of sweeping mandates are hidden behind smoke and mirrors, but this time […]

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https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/floridas-new-social-media-bill-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-and-demands-an-encryption-backdoor/

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Mike Masnick

Date tagged:

04/17/2025, 17:03

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04/17/2025, 12:32