Thursday 21 January 2016
Apple is battling law makers on its home turf as California’s state assembly considers a bill that will ban the sale of any smartphones from 2017 if they are encrypted by default. Spotted by Ars Technica, the bill says that companies would need to ditch disk-level encryption so they could access the back-end if they were required to by law enforcers. That means all iOS products and most other smart devices would no longer be able to be sold in the state. The bill sets out plans to fine manufacturers $2,500 per smartphone sold that does not meet the new requirement, an idea neatly borrowed from…
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