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date: '2020-03-06'
title: 'EARN IT is an attack on encryption'
description: "Yesterday a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced a new bill called the EARN IT act. On its face, the bill seems like a bit of inside baseball having to do with legal liability for information service providers."
tags: ['politics', 'privacy', 'encryption']
---

**[Matthew Green:](https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/03/06/earn-it-is-an-attack-on-encryption/)**

> Yesterday a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced a new bill called the EARN IT act. On its face, the bill seems like a bit of inside baseball having to do with legal liability for information service providers.<!-- excerpt -->
