First off, I think the proposal is one of those "looks good on the surface but is dumb when the details come to light". Simply put it is too vague and borderlin

First off, I think the proposal is one of those "looks good on the surface but is dumb when the details come to light". Simply put it is too vague and borderline an election campaign trial balloon, meaning we will see similar on someone's platform. However the real kicker here is, if they hold private companies to this then how do they excuse the government from similar actions and how does a law assigning this level of protection and declaration of personal property not affect law enforcement? In particular in that your phone/email account/etc has no rights even though your data is there. If this does get somewhere, what if companies choose to encrypt it all and when stolen it is just encrypted. does the government demand the keys at all times?