Florida's Social Media Backdoor Bill Fails

A Florida bill mandating social media companies provide law enforcement with an encryption backdoor to access user accounts and private messages has been defeated. The bill, which required a decryption mechanism for end-to-end encryption upon receiving a subpoena, was indefinitely postponed and withdrawn in the House after the Senate had voted in its favor. Digital rights groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation condemned the bill as dangerous and ill-conceived, arguing that secure backdoors are impossible to create without risking malicious exploitation and increasing vulnerabilities to data breaches. The bill's failure highlights concerns over user privacy and the challenges of balancing security with law enforcement access.