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China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms to Hand Over Encryption Keys

posted by CoolHand on Monday December 28 2015, @06:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the big-brother-in-action dept.

"exec" writes:

Apple may have said that it opposes the idea of weakening encryption and providing governments with backdoors into products, but things are rather different in China. The Chinese parliament has just passed a law that requires technology companies to comply with government requests for information, including handing over encryption keys.

Under the guise of counter-terrorism, the controversial law is the Chinese government's attempt to curtail the activities of militants and political activists. China already faces criticism from around the world not only for the infamous Great Firewall of China, but also the blatant online surveillance and censorship that takes place. This latest move is one that will be view very suspiciously by foreign companies operating within China, or looking to do so.

http://betanews.com/2015/12/27/china-passes-law-requiring-tech-firms-to-hand-over-encryption-keys/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @06:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @06:46PM (#281774)
    Well, it's time to see which vendors bifurcate their products into China and non-China builds, and to see which vendors foolishly give the keys to all devices directly to the Chinese government. Maybe this is a chance for companies who manufacture gadgets to decide how closely they want to associate with a government that wants to mandate backdoors (or it's too late anyway because every tech gadget is manufactured in China and therefore subject to backdoors [memegenerator.net]).