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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: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday July 17 2017, @11:15PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday July 17 2017, @11:15PM (#540625) Homepage Journal

    I think you're underestimating the extent to which non-adoption of distributed platforms were because people are lazy. And overestimating the extent to which something at least 50% of internet users don't even know about affected their choices.

    Perhaps that's so. However, if users had a viable option (with reasonable upload speeds and less abusive ISP ToS), many more people would likely have known about the alternatives, as they would have been much more actively marketed.

    However, there's really no way to know one way or the other, is there?

    Not trying to argue with you here. I'd say that, given the lack of evidence either way, your assumptions are just as (in)valid as mine.

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