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Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law

posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 17 2017, @08:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-to-move-off-the-cloud dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The bill will go into effect in November.

The Australian government is implementing laws that'll pressure tech giants like Facebook and Google to decrypt messages for terrorist and criminal investigators, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on Friday, reports the ABC.

Investigators would ask for assistance from Apple, Facebook, Google and others in cases regarding terrorism, pedophile rings and drug trafficking.

"We've got a real problem in that the new law enforcement agencies are increasingly unable to find out what terrorists and drug traffickers and pedophile rings are up to because of the very high levels of encryption," Turnbull said to reporters.

"Where we can compel it, we will," he added, "but we will need the cooperation from the tech companies."

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @08:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @08:23PM (#540534)

    oh my...

    Anyway, some people like birds. Other people like stars or trains. I like terrorists. I'm a terrorist watcher. Roger the terrorist watcher. Pleased to meet you. Has anybody spotted this rare encrypting terrorist?

    It seems the encrypting terrorist is a very rare specimen, indeed. Has anybody at least heard about where I might find one? Any rumors? I would love to be the first person to catalog this rare and unique kind of terrorist for future terrorist watchers.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @08:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @08:26PM (#540538)

    Roger? have you considered rogering the bull? that turn could give you great benifit