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Various concerns have been raised about this — not least because it includes a clause that communications providers might be required to "remove electronic protection of data".
Various concerns have been raised about this — not least because it includes a clause that communications providers might be required to "remove electronic protection of data".
At the back end of last year it passed the Investigatory Powers Act, which threw up questions about the looming legal implications for encrypted communications in the UK — owing to a provision that states communications service providers may be required to "remove electronic protection of data".
At the back end of last year it passed the Investigatory Powers Act, which threw up questions about the looming legal implications for encrypted communications in the UK — owing to a provision that states communications service providers may be required to "remove electronic protection of data".
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That said, there's some grey area here too being as the UK legislated at the back end of last year for a new investigatory powers framework that has been widely interpreted as an attack on encryption, by giving authorities the legal authority to demand the removal of electronic protection and be given data in a readable form.
Section 189 of the bill, titled "Maintenance of technical capability", allows the secretary of state to issue orders to companies "relating to the removal of electronic protection applied … to any communications or data".
It specifically flags up clause 189 in the draft bill, noting that this permits the Secretary of State to impose obligations "relating to the removal of electronic protection applied by a relevant operator to any communications or data".
We therefore have concerns that the Bill includes "obligations relating to the removal of electronic protection applied by a relevant operator to any communication or data" and that these are explicitly intended to apply extraterritorially with limited protections for overseas providers," they write.
"This is a vital power," said Howe of the ability to require the removal of electronic protection.
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.
For example, they can also require companies to remove a form of electronic protection.
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