Part of the plan, or a new threat to online privacy?
https://www.wnd.com/2020/03/new-web-threat-government-plan-scan-online-messages/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns a bill in Congress would violate privacy and security by 'requiring every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software.
The EFF said that the "EARN IT" bill sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal would spell the end of encryption online.
The bill's authors avoided the word "encryption," EFF noted, but they proposed "legislation that enables an all-out assault on encryption."
"It would create a 19-person commission that's completely controlled by the attorney general and law enforcement agencies. And, at the hearing, a vice-president at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children made it clear what he wants the best practices to be," EFF said. "You can't have an Internet where messages are screened en masse, and also have end-to-end encryption…"