; and (4) providing technical support as necessary to ensure effective execution of an order under this section. . VI Prize competition 601. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The rapidly growing use of warrant-proof encryption in everyday devices, platforms, and systems allows illegal actors engaged in dangerous criminal activity—including child sexual abuse, terrorism, and international narcotics trafficking—to use encryption to shield their illicit activities from authorities. (2) Because of warrant-proof encryption, the government often cannot obtain the electronic evidence and intelligence necessary to investigate and prosecute threats to public safety and national security, even with a warrant or court order. This provides a lawless space that criminals, terrorists, and other bad actors can exploit for their nefarious ends. (3) Many service providers, device manufacturers, and application developers who use encryption fail to implement technology that would allow the government to obtain electronic evidence necessary to investigate and prosecute threats to public safety and national security. (4) The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States strikes a balance between the individual citizen’s reasonable expectation of privacy on one hand, and on the other, the legitimate need for the government to gain access to the most intimate spaces in citizens’ lives in order to protect the public from criminal actors. (5) The Framers of the Constitution provided specific barriers to government intrusion into the individual’s private, intimate space—namely, that the government must show by probable cause that evidence of a crime exists in that intimate space, and must have a neutral magistrate, detached from the law enforcement interest, approve law enforcement’s request and issue a warrant. (6) Once the government satisfies the burden of showing probable cause to a neutral magistrate, the government is entitled to search and seize evidence of a crime in an individual’s private space. (7) That