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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 14 2018, @07:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-use-the-front-door dept.

Australia's promised “not-a-backdoor” crypto-busting bill is out and the government has kept its word - it doesn't want a backdoor, just the keys to your front one.

The draft of The Assistance and Access Bill 2018 calls for anyone using or selling communications services in Australia will be subject to police orders for access to private data.

That includes all vendors of computers, phones, apps, social media and cloud services in the Lucky Country, and anyone within national borders using them. These data-tapping orders will be enforced with fines of up to AU$10m (US$7.3m) for companies or $50,000 ($36,368) for individuals

The draft legislation also wants five years in prison for anyone who reveals a data-slurping investigation is going on. And while there's no explicit encryption backdoor requirements in the 110 page draft bill, our first look suggests there doesn't need to be.


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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday August 15 2018, @12:24AM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday August 15 2018, @12:24AM (#721617)

    Neither of which happened in Australia.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @03:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @03:46AM (#721670)

    USA got Trump after multiple "will not win there", "will not win here" and the final "will not win against Hilary" or "electoral college was created to avoid clowns like this".
    Great Britain got Brexit from a consultive referendum that was pretty close and with fuzzy conditions (and lies, we learnt later), and multiple reaffirmations by those that really have the sovereignty (judges were asked about who really decides), even when conditions are starting to point pretty damaging or useless (= just stay in EU and keep the pros too, morons).
    Australia can do join the club of retarded political choices with this law.

    And remember, even if it looks completly nonsense, keep on digging once the hole is deep enough.
    Never stop. Politicians of the world, your job is to put all comendians out of work, specially the absurd kind.