With the Australian Labor Party caving in on the proposed encryption law that will allow Australian police and agencies to access private data directly from vendors, the new proposed laws are now agreed in principle to introduce government level snooping of user messages and encrypted files. Agencies like ASIO or the Australian Federal Police will have the ability to request that telecommunications and tech companies help them with their investigations and compel companies to build ways to allow targeted access to encrypted communications data.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Fluffeh on Thursday December 06 2018, @12:11AM
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Or a good fear-mongering campaign to get what you want to have more control.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is being put in place for all the right reasons, I just also think that it will be abused for all the wrong ones and by all the wrong people.