--- date: 2020-03-13 draft: false title: EARN IT Act threatens end-to-end encryption 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.