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date: '2020-03-13'
title: 'EARN IT Act threatens end-to-end encryption'
description: "While we're all distracted by stockpiling latex gloves and toilet paper, there's a bill tiptoeing through the US Congress that could inflict the backdoor virus that law enforcement agencies have been trying to inflict on encryption for years."
tags: ['politics', 'privacy', 'security']
---

**[Sophos:](https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/13/earn-it-act-threatens-end-to-end-encryption/)**

> While we're all distracted by stockpiling latex gloves and toilet paper, there's a bill tiptoeing through the US Congress that could inflict the backdoor virus that law enforcement agencies have been trying to inflict on encryption for years.<!-- excerpt -->
