INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In a Five Eyes ministerial meeting in late August, the governments of the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand put forward a number of
proposals that focus on national security, including a stronger stance on encrypted messaging.Established some time during World War II,
Five Eyes is an umbrella agreement between the five aforementioned countries that allows for the free sharing of intelligence and
information for the sake of national security in each nation.With the intention of countering terrorist threats and other high-level crime,
Governments of the Five Eyes encourage information and communications technology service providers to voluntarily establish lawful access
governments continue to encounter impediments to lawful access to information necessary to aid the protection of the citizens of our
forced implementation of backdoor access to encrypted messages.Security and privacy experts have warned against the adoption of backdoors by
tech companies, claiming that it undermines the entire principle of encryption, exposes users to cyberattacks, and is a violation of user
across the Five Eyes countries.
