{"id":278105,"date":"2018-10-03T11:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T09:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=278105"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T09:25:13","slug":"google-facebook-apple-and-amazon-oppose-australian-decryption-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/278105-google-facebook-apple-and-amazon-oppose-australian-decryption-law.html","title":{"rendered":"Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon oppose Australian decryption law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook have said they will object to a proposed law in Australia that compels them to provide access to private encrypted data when served with a warrant, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-australia-security-data\/tech-giants-allied-against-proposed-australia-law-seeking-encrypted-data-idUSKCN1MD0CI\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed legislation, fines of up to A$10 million (R100 million) for institutions and prison time for individuals will apply for failure to comply a court order to decrypt data for law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any kind of attempt by interception agencies, as they are called in the bill, to create tools to weaken encryption is a huge risk to our digital security,&#8221; said Lizzie O&#8217;Shea, spokeswoman for the Alliance for a Safe and Secure Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government said the proposed law is necessary due to increased risk of terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>MTN and Vodacom have previously argued that services such as WhatsApp should be required<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/152101-whatsapp-and-facebook-should-be-regulated-in-south-africa-mtn.html\"> to comply with RICA<\/a><\/strong> in South Africa, which allows for law enforcement to obtain a court order to intercept a person&#8217;s communications.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/277801-fbi-forces-suspect-to-unlock-iphone-x-with-face-id.html\">FBI forces suspect to unlock iPhone X with Face ID<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The companies said they will object to the proposed law in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[54251,32030,723,605,161,167],"class_list":["post-278105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-alliance-for-a-safe-and-secure-internet","tag-alphabet","tag-amazon","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278193,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278105\/revisions\/278193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}