Apple-FBI Row Spurs Senate Bill on Encrypted Data Access
- Companies may be preempted from refusing U.S. access to data
- Legislation being shaped by bipartisan push in Congress
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Apple Inc. and other U.S. companies wouldn’t be able to refuse government orders for access to encrypted data under legislation being drafted by the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee and gaining momentum in Congress.
The measure from Senators Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, and Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, comes amid the bitter standoff between Apple and the FBI over the government gaining access to the contents of an iPhone used by the terrorist gunman in the San Bernardino, California, shooting massacre.