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He warned that the government's plans to update its seven-year-old surveillance legislation would «create serious conflicts» with EU and US law and impose a «worldwide ban» on messaging apps.
The Home Office is consulting on changes to the Investigative Powers Act, which has been called the «Charter of Spies» by critics, and passed in 2016.
Legislation allows the Department of the Interior to release encrypted messaging apps with notifications that force them to be hacked. means of protection in cases where it can help in the investigation, for example, terrorism.
The new proposals include stricter requirements for encrypted messaging apps to inform the Home Office before changes are made to their apps, the ability to service orders for companies based overseas even if they don't have a UK subsidiary, and to secretly force messaging apps to obey a government order before seeking judge's approval.
Currently, messaging apps can refuse to comply with government orders while they appeal.
< p>Apple, which bills itself as a privacy advocate, said, «It is deeply concerning that the Department of the Interior is seeking the power to issue virtually secret out-of-court injunctions against new security technologies without any rights on the part of the service provider.»
It says these changes «will make the Department of the Interior the de facto global arbiter of what level of data security and encryption is acceptable.» greater risk.”
He added that these laws may conflict with foreign laws such as the European Union's GDPR, the US CLOUD Act, and the US-UK Data Agreement.
End-to-end encryption encrypts the communication between two devices, which means they cannot be read by the people intercepting the messages, or even by the messaging app itself. Providers say this provides important privacy protection, but the technology has been criticized by security agencies because it makes it harder for criminals to intercept messages.
The current Investigative Powers Act allows the Home Secretary to order messaging providers to break encryption. The orders, known as capability notifications, are being made in secret, and it's not clear if they were made.
WhatsApp says it never received the notification, and Apple insists it can't follow one of them, suggests it didn't either.
Apple opposed the Investigative Powers Act before it became law in 2016. legislation threatens innovation.
A government spokesman said: «The government's first priority is to keep the country safe, and investigative powers are an important tool to protect our citizens.
«We are constantly reviewing all laws to make sure they are as strong as possible, and these consultations are part of that process — no decisions have been made yet.»
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