Modern Australian

The devil is in the detail of government bill to enable access to communications data

  • Written by Monique Mann, Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Regulation of Technology, Queensland University of Technology

The Australian government has released a draft of its long awaited bill to provide law enforcement and security agencies with new powers to respond to the challenges posed by encryption.

According to the Department of Home Affairs, encryption already impacts 90% of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s (ASIO) priority cases, and 90%...