EFF "Privacy - Key Escrow - United Kingdom" Archive

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uk_key_escrow_960611.alert: UK government plans to legislate draconian key "escrow" system under the oxymoronic euphemism "trusted third party system". The UK government is pushing this as a purely innocuous idea, designed to help the consumer, but we all know better: the government simply wants police and intelligence agencies to be able to snoop on everyone at will.
uk_key_escrow_960430.alert: Advance warning of secretive UK govt. plan to force introduction of key "escrow" and "recovery" (i.e. required surrender of all users' encryption keys to the government.)

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