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What does the recent Australian legislation change? If the mail wasn’t encrypted, FastMail already had the duty to provide the Australian government with whate
by beagle3 8y ago
What does the recent Australian legislation change?
If the mail wasn’t encrypted, FastMail already had the duty to provide the Australian government with whatever asked (through NSL equivalents)
And if you pgp encrypt before sending, they can’t read the content even if they really want to.
Recent legislation in Australia is horrible, and affects a lot of things but somehow Email service doesn’t seem to be one of them. (Don’t let an Australian mail app do the encryption for you, though; those should be considered compromised)
- d2wa 8y agoCompanies have to build tools that grants any law enforcement agency access to whatever data they want on whomever they want. For an email provider, these tools could include a search function that lets them look through every email on the platform. Or they could just ask them to mail them a daily dump of all new messages on a floppy disk. The point being, FastMail can’t tell the world what assistance and access their granting the government and there is no oversight or even transparency that could spark public debates on what is reasonable and what isn’t. This satirical video is a good introduction to the changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE