Tech giants to be targeted by anti-terror laws to help police access encrypted data

Krusty · Jun 5, 2018

New laws to force the nation's telecommunications companies and multinational tech giants to help law enforcement agencies access the encrypted data of suspected criminals and terrorists will be released in weeks.

But Cyber Security Minister Angus Taylor is reluctant to discuss exactly how the new powers would work, or whether the proposal would allow the embedding of surveillance codes in mobile devices.

Under the new laws, companies would face significant fines if they did not comply with requests for access to the data.

Telecommunications companies such as Telstra and Optus are not the only target, with multinational tech giants including Facebook, Apple and Google to also come under the new laws.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/tech-and-telco-terror-laws-to-be-presented-in-weeks/9839500

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Mr Taylor was repeatedly asked whether surveillance codes would be dropped into mobile devices, and avoided directly answering by arguing he was not prepared to get into the technical details.

"It includes whatever techniques are relevant, and that's how the current system works," he said.

"It's not appropriate to have a world where we can do this for analogue data, analogue communication, but we can't do it in the digital world."
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