French bill carries 5-year jail sentence for company refusals to decrypt data for police

Employees of companies in France That refuses to decrypt data for Police can go to jail for five years under new legislation from conservative Legislators, Agence France-Presse reports. The new proposal echoes a bill from January 2016 That Would Have mandated "backdoors" into encryption in France . That backdoor bill, championed by Conservatives in the French legislature, Was Defeated and Criticized by the current government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
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