After the last cases of Facebook and Google where it has been confirmed once again, that our data is traded by the big ones, Apple has hung the privacy advocate flag of users, in a move that will surely win a large number of users concerned in this regard.
China was the first country that forced Apple to store all the data of its users in the country, in a move that is clearly oriented to power always have them on hand when necessary. Now it is Australia who wants to move, but in a much more direct way.
The Australian government has proposed a new law that will force all tech companies to transfer the encrypted data of its users to government agencies that request them. Google, Facebook and Amazon are part of the rest of allies who have expressed their discomfort at the proposal of this new law that could be the first step for all governments to do the same and thus end the little privacy that we could have. Apple users.
The Australian government plans to fine companies that refuse to provide data with up to $ 7,2 million for each request. At the moment, as I have commented above, it is a proposed law, so it may not finally be processed.
According to Lizzie O'Shea, spokesperson for this alliance of companies for a safe and secure Internet:
Any kind of attempt by the interception agencies, as they are called in the bill, to create tools to weaken encryption is a huge risk to our digital security
We will closely monitor how this bill, which took its first steps in June, evolves.
