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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) by fustakrakich on Thursday December 06 2018, @08:17AM (4 children)
It's just the illusion of choice, really.
Illusion or no, the problem is the voters' to fix. They have to take their own initiative. Nobody will do it for them.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:15PM (3 children)
S'true. Unfortunately the lizards are extremely adept at distracting them from this.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:36PM (2 children)
No, we have to acknowledge our own lizardness. It's not "them", it's all of us. We have to ignore the distractions. To follow is a choice, much more meaningful than whatever the windbag spews.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:45PM (1 child)
Wise words. Unfortunately almost nobody will grok either the direct sentiment or the implications and resolve to do or think any differently.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday December 06 2018, @03:00PM
It's an evolutionary thing. Biological, not 'intellectual'. Our feeble idealism simply doesn't compete, in fact it doesn't really oppose, quite the opposite, we serve our master well.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..