EU Court to Rule on Apple’s €13B Irish Tax Bill

In a memo out Monday from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the industry-friendly think tank recounts federal efforts to stymie the spread of encryption and takes aim at the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act (S. 4051), calling it “an extreme and unjustified measure” and a “nuclear option” that would “make commercial products used by ordinary consumers and businesses less secure.” Backdoor bills, ITIF said, would sacrifice “long-term gains in cybersecurity and national competitiveness for short-term law enforcement capabilities.”