California Congressman and Texas Republican challenge state-level proposals to restrict US citizens’ ability to encrypt their smartphones. The last year’s ISIS-linked terror attacks in Paris and California has sparked debate on Encryption, and the intelligent agencies started reviving their efforts to weaken encryption on various encrypted products and services. The bill, called “Ensuring National Constitutional Rights for Your Private Telecommunications Act of 2016”, would stop states from individually trying to make major companies change their technology to fulfil law enforcement requirements. It would need to pass both the House of Representatives and signed by the President in order to take effect.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/encrypt-act-2016.html