Smartphone "Decryption" Is Not Possible on ENCRYPT Act of 2016

A legislation this week is aiming about the local and state government law on banning the smartphones regarding encryption, this is being introduced by four members of the Congress.

This new bill is called “ENCRYPT (Ensuring National Constitutional Rights for Your Private Telecommunication) Act of 2016, according to the statement by the lawmakers, this new bill is intended to ensure a uniform national policy regarding on the encryption technology.

Encryption is used on many smartphones today, which includes Android smartphone and iPhones, which is designed to ensure the protection of personal data, the example for this are private financial data and present health information from the people who have bad intentions. The only way to open encrypted data is through the use of decryption Key, which it is available only to the smartphone user through a passcode. With this latest technology being put by the smartphone manufacturers, government intelligence officials and others have difficulty in decrypting the smartphone, which have a full-encryption disk.

This Encrypt Bill arrived as FBI Director James Comey and others have tried to persuade those smartphone manufacturing giant to share their encryption technology, to help them to investigate crimes and global terror attacks.

Many lawmakers are worried about this new bills sponsored by state legislators in New York and California that may ban encryption on the smartphones sold on their states.

The Proposal in New York and California, if being passed, would require smartphone manufactures that encrypted smartphones to enable decryption of data on the smartphones made after the year 2017.

The four sponsor of this upcoming bill are U.S. Rep. Ted W. Lieu (D-Calif.), joined by Mike Bishop (R-Mich.), Reps. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) and Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.).

U.S Representative Lieu said “A patchwork of 50 different encryption standards is a recipe for disaster that would create new security vulnerabilities, threaten individual privacy and undermine the competitiveness of American innovators,” . “It is bad for law enforcement, bad for technology users and bad for American technology companies. National issues require national responses. The ENCRYPT Act makes sure this conversation happens in a place that does not disrupt interstate commerce.”

The Encrypt measure is quickly endorsed by Trade groups, it includes Information Technology Industry Council, Internet Infrastructure Coalition and Internet Association.

A bill quickly introduced by New York Assemblyman Matthew Titone in June to block the encrypted smartphones in their states. Also a similar bill is being introduced by California Assemblyman that affects the smartphones sold in California in January.