Privacy advocate, Paul Bischoff, has hit back at the AFP, calling its raid on ABC’s offices and a journalist's home “especially troubling." He said journalists need to beef up cyber security measures.
The encryption bill, intended to help police and national security agencies intercept online communications, could turn Australian companies ‘into Huaweis’, technology chiefs have warned.
A group of eight associations have called on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to not make a rushed decision on the Assistance and Access Bill 2018.
Cisco has raised "grave concerns" over the Assistance and Access Bill stating it is essential that "we avoid the false dilemma of trade-offs" between privacy and security.
Apple has raised concerns about the Assistance and Access Bill, arguing its “dangerously ambiguous” wording will create a risk to weakened cyber security.
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Oath and Twitter members have raised concerns over the Assistance and Access Bill draft published on 14 August.