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Australia's Major Parties Vote Against Encryption In Wake of Apple FBI Case (delimiter.com.au)

Posted by timothy on from the parliament-of-whores dept.

daria42 writes: If you're counting on Apple to keep your digital information safe, you may want to think again ... at least if you live in Australia. Yesterday the country's two major political parties — Labor and the Coalition — voted down a motion in Federal Parliament calling for strong encryption to be supported in the wake of the FBI's demands that Apple unlock iOS. It appears that implementing comprehensive telephone and email retention in Australia may not have been the end of demands by law enforcement in the country.

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  1. Re: Fucked Country by SumDog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um, how? They actually had a debate, and a vote where it was supported by greens and independents. In the US, we wouldn't even have the debate. We don't even have parties! (Don't fool yourself into thinking we have two. We have one: the demopublicans and the republicrats).

    They also have order of preference voting with instant runoff (you literally cannot throw a voat away) and mandatory voting (punishable by fine..that's occasionally enforced).

    Also all their major cities have train networks (Darwin, doesn't count..same with ACT) that make America's look like a joke (sans Chicago, NYC and DC). Melbourne has the largest tram system in the world. Cincinnati struggled to get a 4k loop because America's fear of rail+ idiot councilmen.

    Get off your "America is better" horse shit and go travel for a bit. You'll be surprised by what you find.