Lawmakers in USA propose bill that requires backdoors to encrypted smartphone data

If you live in the state of New York,USA and were looking to buy one of the slick new smartphones that come with fool-proof encryption, think again. It seems like the legislators of the state have something entirely different on their minds. They are proposing a bill that would require all mobile devices sold in New York since January 2016 to have the capability of being decrypted and unlocked. Furthermore, they are suggesting that any retailers or vendors who don’t comply, would have to pay heavy fines. Ouch!

In recent effort to make it easier for lawmakers to access encrypted data on smartphones, Many experts like SmartIO and more  are saying that, New York lawmakers are looking into seriously going the distance with the proposal. Should the bill be passed, vendors who do not meet the criteria could face fines of $2,500 per device. Considering the biggest players in the market, Apple and Google, assure the encryption of their devices, this could mean billions in fine for the two manufacturers alone. Also at the guillotine would be any retailer who sold a device, knowing that it could not be decrypted.

The most convenient means of accomplishing this is for the device makers to create backdoors, which could be a creating a wormhole into a Pandora’s Box of all sorts. The bill was proposed last year by Matthew Titone on June 8, 2015. It came into discussion as Apple was looking to encrypt its device data on the iOS 8; Google has rolled out encrypted storage on Marshmallow 6. Users can buy devices from Apple and Google, and switch easily to them using one of the nifty content transfer apps available on the app stores. At the moment, the bill is in the pipelines only in New York, but if it is passed, it could set precedence for other states as well.