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: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday December 06 2018, @12:31AM (3 children)
"So realistically, Australia is going to be without Facebook, Twitter, and many others."
Go Aussies! :)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:42AM
Suddenly overnight the average iq down under jumps by .5 %
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:08PM (1 child)
No Facebook or Twitter. Possibly no Apple. Throw Microsoft into that last list and Australia may start to be like a piece of heaven.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday December 06 2018, @05:17PM
Amen!
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