--- 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." draft: false 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.