The UK government already has the power to demand that services remove encryption thanks to a 2016 piece of legislation called the Investigatory Powers Act. ButThe Guardiannotesthat WhatsApp has never received a request to do so. Atleast one commentator thinksthe same could happen with the Online...
Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, which authorizes law enforcement to compel assistance from companies to access user data. “The law, known by critics as the Snoopers’ Charter, makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has even made such a demand,” the Post reported. “App...
Recently, the UK Home Office leveraged the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) to order Apple to give British security officials unfettered access to all encrypted iCloud data globally, which would put everyone’s encrypted backups at risk no matter where they live. While the Cupertino company can (...
Instead Parker used the interview to justify the passage of the draft Investigatory Powers Act. Robert Harrington, the normally reclusive head of GCHQ, wrote an opinion piece for the Financial Times in which he made the case for a new understanding between the security services, social media ...
law enforcement agencies (with judicial approval) can issue 'technical capabilities notices' to service providers requiring the development and maintenance of a 'technical capability' for intercepting and decrypting data (Telecommunications Act 1997 [Aust.], s317T; Investigatory Powers Act 2016 [UK], ...
Accessed 27 June 2021 (“Regardless of the criticality or importance of the outsourced function, the written outsourcing arrangements between institutions and service providers should refer to the information gathering and investigatory powers of competent authorities”). 314. Björn Hessert, The Duty ...
The United Kingdom is home to an intense surveillance system. Most of the legal framework for this comes from the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which dates all the way back to the year 2000. RIPA is meant to support criminal investigation, preventing disorder, public safety, public ...
They were able to sound intelligent as they explained cogently ideas that some consider antithetical to American interests. Today, however, suits on Republicans are like putting lipstick on pigs. No where was that more apparent than with Donald Trump. Trump’s ascendancy in the GOP was a ...
Knowing what went on in the UK after “tin pot jodsworths” got investigatory powers under the UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) I am more surprised that we have not heard of such behaviour befor. The real question now of course is where does the trial go from here, in ...
Individually-targeted sanctions pursuant to the 2016 Global Magnitsky Act (GMA) have been used to hold individuals responsible for acts of grand corruption and human rights abuse in places like Russia and the DRC (explainedhereandhere). Yet more can and should be done to compensate thevictimsof...