The State Assembly of California has introduced a Bill earlier in the year which states that the smartphone manufacturing companies as well as mobile operating companies and systems need build the relevant backdoor for their products. In case a company fails to do that or does not comply with the same, they will be fined accordingly.

As per the Assembly Bill 1681, it is stated that any smartphone that is manufactured after or on January 1st, 2017 and is being sold in the State of California has to be capable enough to be unlocked and decrypted by either the provider of the operating system or the manufacturer of the phone. It also went ahead to say that the companies who fail to comply knowingly would have to pay a fine that will be charged as per every device in the amount of $2500.

Jim Cooper who is the Member of the Assembly had introduced the bill and James Gallagher another member of the assembly along with Isadore Hall and Patricia Bates the senators of the state had co authorized the bill.

The EFF noted that this kind of a bill, in a lot of ways can be problematic. The first being the fact that the prevention of encrypted phones is not prevented in the states neighbouring it. A legislation similarly has been put into place and proposed by the Assembly Members of New York. They are Walter T Mosley and Matthew Titone. Richard Burr and Diane Feinstein who are US Senators are also planning to go ahead and introduce on a federal level a comparable measure really soon.

When questioned about the proposal that she had made, Diane Feinstein stated that she had a belief that was really essential and to the fact that no company in America should in any way be put above the law.