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"The bill also provides for assistance to any of the Five Eyes partners to use the Australian powers through Australian agencies, so the UK, New Zealand, Canada, the United States can all ask Australia to seek back doors in any software released by any company with a presence in Australia - which is most tech companies of any size."
On face value its good, Terrorist wannabees and the criminally intent are hiding their communications via encrypted Apps and the feds here want access to those.
Problem is many of these apps are point to point encryption, ie: even the companies that make the app can't get into them.. so they want those apps to record all user activity ;) and let the feds have access when ever requested to those logs.
It doesn't worry me ( Like the vast majority here ) but... I did J walk yesterday and no doubt my phone knows that...
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