Security News UK govt wants real-time communication surveillance powers, courtesy of telcos

[frogboy]

A leaked draft of proposed regulations shows that the UK government is after greater communication surveillance powers, and that in order to get them, it will legally require UK communications companies to provide the technical capabilities.
The regulations would compel UK postal, phone and ISP companies, but also entities that facilitate communication (e.g. apps) to provide real-time access to targeted customers’ communications, and this includes providing backdoors into encrypted ones (if the encryption capability is provided by the operator).

“[The telecommunications service operators would be obligated] To provide and maintain the capability to disclose, where practicable, the content of communications or secondary data in an intelligible form and to remove electronic protection applied by or on behalf of the telecommunications operator to the communications or data, or to permit the person to whom the warrant is addressed to remove such electronic protection,” the draft says.

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[jamescv7]

“The public has a right to know about government powers that could put their privacy and security at risk. There needs to be transparency about how such measures are judged to be reasonable, the risks that are imposed on users and companies, and how companies can challenge government demands that are unreasonable,”

I hope that the line of quote mentioned will not easily diminish because of surveillance power, privacy is already exposed; yet better use only if such investigation occurred like crimes.

 

[HarborFront]

I believe the carrier-pigeon will make a return with lucrative business. No need of encryption and no worry of the government snooping on you