British authorities impose criminal penalties on companies for noticing government surveillance
The company Yahoo last week announced that it would warn users about suspicions of surveillance by government services. Twitter, Facebook and Google have done it before. The British authorities do not like this initiative: they are considering a bill on which the head of the company, warning about the surveillance by British agencies, could go to prison for two years.
Example of notification from Facebook to account
UK authorities threaten the criminal liability of technology firms that inform users of requests for access to information from organizations such as MI5, MI6 and the Center for Government Communications (GCHQ).
Twitter policy involves notifying users about access to their information, unless the company is forced to do otherwise in court. The bill will make these social network actions illegal. The new law will force the communication service provider not to notify the subject of the request for its information, unless the request explicitly states otherwise. Facebook began to warn users about government-sponsored attacks in October 2015.
Companies will need to store data, including visited sites, for twelve months. They will be available to government agencies without any restrictions. This bill is designed to combat terrorism, but user monitoring at this level is already banned in the United States , Canada, and several European countries.
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The bill will allow UK authorities to “ask” companies to weaken the encryption of instant messengers such as WhatsApp and iMessage, in order to give the security services the opportunity to follow the correspondence. Apple opposed this initiative: “We believe that it would be wrong to weaken security for hundreds of millions of law-abiding clients only to weaken security for those few people who represent a threat.” Apple and Microsoft do not want to give users correspondence to state agencies.
The bill of the British authorities is contrary to the UN decision, according to which encryption and anonymity on the Internet is attributed to human rights .
Example of notification from Facebook to account
UK authorities threaten the criminal liability of technology firms that inform users of requests for access to information from organizations such as MI5, MI6 and the Center for Government Communications (GCHQ).
Twitter policy involves notifying users about access to their information, unless the company is forced to do otherwise in court. The bill will make these social network actions illegal. The new law will force the communication service provider not to notify the subject of the request for its information, unless the request explicitly states otherwise. Facebook began to warn users about government-sponsored attacks in October 2015.
Companies will need to store data, including visited sites, for twelve months. They will be available to government agencies without any restrictions. This bill is designed to combat terrorism, but user monitoring at this level is already banned in the United States , Canada, and several European countries.
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The bill will allow UK authorities to “ask” companies to weaken the encryption of instant messengers such as WhatsApp and iMessage, in order to give the security services the opportunity to follow the correspondence. Apple opposed this initiative: “We believe that it would be wrong to weaken security for hundreds of millions of law-abiding clients only to weaken security for those few people who represent a threat.” Apple and Microsoft do not want to give users correspondence to state agencies.
The bill of the British authorities is contrary to the UN decision, according to which encryption and anonymity on the Internet is attributed to human rights .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/356980/
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