Sign here: Petition 121521
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Properly clarify status of encryption in The Investigatory Powers Bill
The draft bill suggests that communications providers may have to remove "protection". The joint committee says the bill should make clear that this be only where technically practicable. This does not quite go far enough. We need a clear statement allowing CPs to offer secure communications.
The bill MUST make clear that CPs can offer secure communications which cannot be read or intercepted even with a warrant or with an intercept order or order to maintain an intercept capability.
Without this people (in UK and overseas) cannot trust CPs offering secure communications, and trust is essential in this industry.
Even as worded now, the bill allows criminals to communicate using own encryption, so that battle is lost. We need to allow non-criminals the same benefit using CP services
Contrary to last time the petition was published in a day, on a Sunday! Do sign...
Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121521/
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Interesting, they allowed 18 to sign before they blocked the sponsor link.
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ReplyDeleteI see that Apple have publically put themselves on the side of the sane: http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
ReplyDeleteWith any luck now the maker of the most shiny toys has spelled it out, the powers that be might be forced to actually listen.
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