While Australia’s data retention law permits law enforcement to track calls and online activities, encryption tools prohibit the content of communications from being analyzed—a potential problem both for police and for privacy, Australian Financial Review reports. As encryption is used appropriately on most websites, “99 percent of all encryption would have to be excepted” if a law against the measure were to be enacted, leading to proposed solutions of licenses or murky discussions of legislation. “The problem with that approach in 2015 is that any solution that compromises the rights to free or private speech and the presumption of innocence and criminalises or licenses existing freedoms, should ring every alarm and flash every red light a modern democracy has to ring and flash,” the report states.
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