{"id":374358,"date":"2018-08-22T03:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/warring-against-encryption-australian-proposals-for-the-tech-giants\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T03:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:23:09","slug":"warring-against-encryption-australian-proposals-for-the-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/warring-against-encryption-australian-proposals-for-the-tech-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Warring against Encryption: Australian proposals for the Tech Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>What is it with Australia\u2019s law enforcement authorities?\u00a0 Their uncontrollable appetite for encrypted data \u2013 primarily the data of private users \u2013 is so voracious it has become a parody of itself.\u00a0 There seems to be little that will restrain such politicians as Cybersecurity minister Angus Taylor, who insists that the technology giants cough up data with ease and cooperative generosity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need legislation in place,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/new-laws-to-force-tech-giants-to-reveal-data\">claims<\/a> Taylor in justification, \u201cwhereby companies can work with government to ensure that we can get access to the data we need to prosecute and investigate serious crimes.\u201d\u00a0 And there you have it: the cooperative model between government and technology providers that surrenders individual privacy at a moment\u2019s notice, the civic duty to do what\u2019s good for the country, however unnecessarily intrusive.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government\u2019s attitudes to the private data of citizens tend to be schizophrenic.\u00a0 They acknowledge the value of encrypted services, but do not like them.\u00a0 As the Department of Home Affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homeaffairs.gov.au\/about\/consultations\/assistance-and-access-bill-2018\">explains<\/a>, \u201cEncryption and other forms of electronic protection are vital security measures that protect private, commercial and Government data and make communications and devices of all people more secure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then comes the grim qualifier, setting the ground for exceptions. \u201cHowever, these security measures are also being employed by terrorists, child sex offenders and criminal organisations to mask illegal conduct.\u201d\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/warring-against-encryption-australian-proposals-for-the-tech-giants\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with Australia\u2019s law enforcement authorities?\u00a0 Their uncontrollable appetite for encrypted data \u2013 primarily the data of private users \u2013 is so voracious it has become a parody of itself.\u00a0 There seems to be little that will restrain such politicians as Cybersecurity minister Angus Taylor, who insists that the technology giants cough up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}