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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:58AM
And mere possession of child pornography should not be illegal. For one thing, it becomes all too easy to frame someone when all you have to do is surreptitiously plant data on their equipment. For another, the idea of voodoo harm being done to the original child victims every time someone looks at the data is laughable nonsense. If that were true, like organizations such as the FBI pretend, then the FBI itself would have to admit that they harm more children than anyone with their extensive child porn honeypots.