Australian Government Ignores Experts in Advancing Its Anti-Encryption Bill
EFF’s opposition to this bill is widely shared by companies, cybersecurity researchers, and civil liberties groups around the world. New America’s Open Technology Institute and EFF, in comments signed by Apple, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, R-Street Institute, CryptoAUSTRALIA, and Privacy International, criticized the bill for failing to provide a “clear process or standard for challenging” TANs and TCNs. Further, the bill’s strict nondisclosure provisions mean that any end-users harmed by a government order will likely never know about it, hindering their ability to defend their privacy rights in court.
