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: 2) by c0lo on Thursday December 06 2018, @04:21AM (2 children)
You are right for the wrong reasons.
It is true that Australia suffers from the exact same problems as the US.
You a wrong about the reason, though. It is not that the two major political parties are so close in their positions, it is because both the countries shares the same "deep state" that's pushing the agenda, namely the US deep state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:50AM (1 child)
Have you considered the possibility that the problem is that the Australian politicians have their heads stuck up the ass of the US and the US have their hands stuck up the asses of the pollies ala kermitthefrog?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday December 06 2018, @08:31AM
The cause of the cause, you ask?
I considered many possible explanations for why our polies are missing the asses of the American deep state on a bipartisan basis.
The most probable one to my mind is the fear the Chinese won't want just to play nice with what the Aussies will want to sell them, but will come with demands in regards with the access to 'strategic resources'. And perhaps, in time, will back this demands with some military bases in the friendly countries, like East Timor, Fiji, Vanuatu, etc. Of course, with the permission of these countries, not hard to buy their goodwill after Australia played for grabs with some of them [wikipedia.org].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford