Mar 28, 2019 14:00:00

Microsoft president warns 'No longer can businesses securely store data' against Australian anti-cryptography

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Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith gave a speech at the Economic Development Committee on March 27, 2019 in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Among them, referring to the anti-encryption law established in Australia in December 2018, warned that 'businesses and governments in other countries no longer feel anxious about storing data in Australia'. It was

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On December 6, 2018, the Australian Congress approved the 'Assistance and Access Bill 2018', which obliges IT companies to provide encrypted communications access. This law makes it possible to decrypt communications at the request of government agencies, and it is called 'Anti-Encryption Act' by experts and the media.

Voice of protests against the Australian Anti-Encryption Act obliging 'all services accessible' to intercept encrypted communications-GIGAZINE

The Australian technology industry calls for a revision to the Anti-Crypt Act before the next general election, held in May 2019, claiming that surveillance and reduction in scope are necessary. However, the Australian Telecommunications Bureau noted that there was a similar law in the United Kingdom, denying the statement that 'the law gives security authorities unlimited power' and 'technology companies are driven overseas'.

Mr Smith said, 'In the past five years, Australia has become the focus of a lot of people, businesses and governments of other countries as' a country where data can be safely stored ', a large data center in Australia As a result, the Australian economy and technology companies have been given great benefits.

However, 'I hear people in business and governments say,' I can not put data in Australia at ease 'if I have been in a country other than Australia since December 2018,' Smith said. It was revealed that companies and governments asked if there was a data center other than Australia. He added, 'We are being asked to build more data centers in countries other than Australia. We will have to solve those problems.'

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While Smith states that the law does not intend to create backdoors that would compromise encryption technology, “a provision that would eliminate the need for companies to create backdoors that would be a system weakness. There is no in the law, 'pointed out that the content of the law is very vague. Alleged that it would be in the interest of the Australian federal government to ease concerns about the law or to modify the law itself.