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Australian Law Enforcement Pushes Against Encryption, Advocates Data Retention

Posted by samzenpus on from the laying-down-the-law dept.

angry tapir (1463043) writes "Australia is in the middle of a parliamentary inquiry examining telecommunications interception laws. Law enforcement organisations are using this to resurrect the idea of a scheme for mandatory data retention by telcos and ISPs. In addition, an Australian law enforcement body is pushing for rules that would force telcos help with decryption of communications."

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  1. Re:Reason to use end-to-end encryption by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't google dumping [insert service here] completely in less than a month?

    Very probably.

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