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How EARN IT Could Give Abusers A Get Out Of Jail Free Card: By Making Evidence Inadmissible | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220211/11224048453/how-earn-it-could-give-abusers-get-out-jail-free-card-making-evidence-inadmissible.shtml

Capsule summary: It's been blindingly obvious to most of the tech-literate that Senators, on the whole, don't understand how encryption (or pretty much any other technology, for that matter) works. As this TechDirt article points out, the latest debates on Sen. Blumenthal's EARN-IT anti-encryption bill makes it very clear that they don't understand the Fourth Amendment either, because if it is mandated (as this bill intends to do) that online content hosting companies must scan for child porn material (which they already do voluntarily anyway), then they become government 'agents', the scan becomes an illegal search unless they have a warrant, and anything they find is therefore inadmissable in court.

And no, you can't just issue every content hosting company a search warrant naming everyone who uses their services. That would violate the Fourth Amendment as well (because it would be overly broad).

#law #congress #counterproductive

How EARN IT Could Give Abusers A Get Out Of Jail Free Card: By Making Evidence Inadmissible

In admitting that his EARN IT Act is really about attacking encryption, Senator Richard Blumenthal said he wouldn't agree to keep encryption out of the bill because he worried that it would give companies a "get-out-of-jail-free card.&quot...