What is the Australian Anti-Encryption Bill?
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT).
The Australian “Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018,” also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, was passed on the 6th of December, and it’s expected that it becomes law in early 2019. This new bill allows Australian law enforcement to force tech giants such as Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Amazon and Microsoft to help them access encrypted information.
With this bill, the Australian government and law enforcement agencies will be able to tell tech companies to do to assist in obtaining encrypted data by doing things like remove electronic protection, installing existing software or build new capabilities to decrypt communications. Those companies that would not comply are set to face massive financial penalties.
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