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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @10:28PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @10:28PM (#540612)

    The bigger problem is the centralization of the internet around a few shitty social networks, but we can blame users for that.

    Ah yes, blame the plebes. Are you aware of the network effect and first-mover advantage? People use what their friends use. It's a natural monopoly.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:13AM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:13AM (#540654) Journal

    It's a natural monopoly.

    Like the phone company, where you can't talk to anybody off-network?

    Xmpp/Jabber handls this just fine.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:07AM (#540727)

    People can still make their own decisions and refuse on principle to use abusive services like Facebook (which is a monstrous surveillance engine). Instead, you see people giving sites like Facebook not only their own information, but other people's information as well, even if those other people want nothing to do with these services! They are therefore complicit in the privacy violations.