One of the big upcoming battles for the tech industry is whether Congress will pass a law limiting the ability to build strong privacy measures into products like Facebook’s WhatsApp or Apple’s iPhone and iMessage.
While the House holds preliminary hearings, the Senate is further along, with Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, both on the Senate Intelligence Committee, presenting a draft of legislation that has been called “clueless and unworkable” by computer security experts.
Now the tech industry has weighed in on Feinstein-Burr, via an open letter published earlier this week endorsed by four trade associations, and they’re not happy about the draft.
