{"id":32172,"date":"2019-12-06T04:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T04:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a45344b6-6881-457f-88b3-b68febde86f4"},"modified":"2019-12-06T04:11:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T04:11:29","slug":"labors-plan-to-fix-australias-encryption-laws-doesnt-go-far-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/labors-plan-to-fix-australias-encryption-laws-doesnt-go-far-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor&#8217;s plan to fix Australia&#8217;s encryption laws doesn&#8217;t go far enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2016\/08\/02\/33cc2ed6-4c99-456d-8c91-ce453eb82d42\/thumbnail\/770x578\/5527c70f0512641038e562c17dd8732e\/keyhand.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday the Labor Party announced it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/labor-says-it-will-fix-encryption-laws-it-voted-for-last-year\/\">attempt to fix<\/a> Australia&#8217;s controversial encryption laws. Yes, the laws that Labor itself voted for in December 2018, enabling the government to get them over the line.<\/p>\n<p>The text of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/parlwork.aph.gov.au\/bills\/s1247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Telecommunications Amendment (Repairing Assistance and Access) Bill 2019<\/a><\/em> was then tabled on Wednesday. It&#8217;s worth looking at, as much for what it omits as what it includes.<\/p>\n<p>The two main features of the Bill are inserting judges into the approval process, and trying to clarify what law enforcement and intelligence agencies can and can&#8217;t demand from communications providers.<\/p>\n<h3>How the Assistance and Access Act works today<\/h3>\n<p>Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/whats-actually-in-australias-encryption-laws-everything-you-need-to-know\/\">the laws as currently written<\/a>, agencies can issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Technical Assistance Notices (TAN), which are compulsory notices for a &#8220;designated communication provider&#8221; to use an interception capability they already have;<\/li>\n<li>Technical Capability Notices (TCN), which are compulsory notices for a designated communication provider to build a new interception capability, so that it can meet subsequent Technical Assistance Notices; and<\/li>\n<li>Technical Assistance Requests (TAR), which are &#8220;voluntary&#8221; requests, but really, how could you refuse?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A voluntary TAR can be issued by the director-general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), or the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), or by the chief officer of an &#8220;interception agency&#8221; &#8212; the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), and the state and territory police forces provided they get the approval of the AFP Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>A compulsory TAN can be issued by any of those, apart from ASIS and ASD. Australia&#8217;s two international spy agencies don&#8217;t have domestic powers.<\/p>\n<p>A TCN can only be issued by the Attorney-General following a request from ASIO or an interception agency, and only with the approval of the Minister for Communications.<\/p>\n<h3>How Labor&#8217;s bill would change things<\/h3>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\">\n<\/section>\n<p>Under Labor&#8217;s proposal, that structure stays much the same. But as well as an underlying warrant to access the communications in the first place, a TAN, TCN, or TAR would also have to be approved by a judge.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, that would address one of the biggest problems with the law, the lack of independent oversight.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill would also dump the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/australias-encryption-laws-will-fall-foul-from-differing-definitions\/\">clumsy and confusing definitions<\/a> of &#8220;electronic protection&#8221;, &#8220;systemic vulnerability&#8221;, &#8220;systemic weakness&#8221;, or &#8220;target technology&#8221; and replace them with language that is intended to be clearer.<\/p>\n<p>The terms &#8220;systemic weakness&#8221; and &#8220;systemic vulnerability&#8221; remain as things that the government can&#8217;t ask for. They&#8217;d now be described as &#8220;implement or build a new decryption capability&#8221;, &#8220;one or more actions that would render systemic methods of authentication or encryption less effective&#8221;, and &#8220;any act or thing that would or may create a material risk that otherwise secure information would or may in the future be accessed, used, manipulated, disclosed, or otherwise compromised by an unauthorised third party&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;acts or things&#8221; that agencies can ask for would also be limited to the specific things listed in in <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.austlii.edu.au\/cgi-bin\/viewdoc\/au\/legis\/cth\/consol_act\/ta1997214\/s317e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">section 317E<\/a> of the <em>Telecommunications Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And when assessing whether a proposed Act or thing would be legal, the greatest weight would now be given to the questions of whether a systemic weakness or systemic vulnerability would be created, or whether it would breach the restrictions on TCNs listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.austlii.edu.au\/cgi-bin\/viewdoc\/au\/legis\/cth\/consol_act\/ta1997214\/s317zga.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">section 317ZGA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That would be a clear win for the interests of citizens and the tech industry over the cops and spooks.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the 14-page Bill is largely about reporting and oversight arrangements. One of my favourites would be removing the power of the Minister for Home Affairs to &#8220;edit and delete information included in reports made by the Commonwealth Ombudsman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It would also remove the power of the minister to add new &#8220;acts or things&#8221; via a ministerial determination. Proper parliamentary scrutiny would now be required.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s missing: limiting the encryption laws to properly serious crimes<\/h3>\n<p>Throughout the debate on these laws, politicians have stressed how they&#8217;re needed to fight the most heinous of crimes. Terrorism. Child abuse. The illegal drug trade. The usual suspects. But that&#8217;s misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The encryption laws apply to investigating &#8220;serious Australian offences&#8221;, sure, but those are defined as any federal, state, or territory crime &#8220;punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of 3 years or more or for life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Look around the various jurisdictions. You&#8217;ll soon find this could cover such existential threats as graffiti, criminal damage, menacing phone calls, or even pranks.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2019\/05\/30\/encryption-debate-in-australia-pub-79217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">written previously<\/a>, it certainly includes white-collar crime like fraud or criminal negligence. The law could then potentially scoop up communication within almost any enterprise software application or service.<\/p>\n<p>Labor&#8217;s Bill does nothing to change this.<\/p>\n<p>Nor does it address the persistent fears that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/australias-encryption-laws-are-highly-unlikely-to-dragoon-employees-in-secret\/\">employees could be secretly dragooned<\/a> into working for the cops or spooks. Some legal analysts say they&#8217;re overblown, but those fears are certainly still a thing.<\/p>\n<h3>Labor&#8217;s challenge is breaking national security&#8217;s bipartisan tradition<\/h3>\n<p>The big question, of course, is whether Labor can get this bill through parliament. The Senate, sure, because Labor and The Greens have the numbers. But in the Coalition-controlled House of Representatives?<\/p>\n<p>Labor is obviously betting on the government supporting this bill because, effectively, it doesn&#8217;t ask for anything more than the amendments that were already circulating before the federal election back in May. None of these amendments are controversial.<\/p>\n<p>But addressing other issues, and to address Australia&#8217;s vast array of national security and surveillance laws more broadly, will be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is the continual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cyber-security-strategy-2020-civil-society-experts-slam-national-security-agenda\/\">conflation of cybersecurity and law enforcement with national security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All are important, of course, but Australian political parties collapse like Superman confronted with kryptonite in the face of anyone waving the national security wand.<\/p>\n<p>No one wants to be &#8220;soft on security&#8221; or &#8220;weak on border protection&#8221;, but no one seems to have the spine to say &#8220;Sure, but what you&#8217;re proposing is wrong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Changing that narrative would require a long-term effort to reframe the debate. One where national security is discussed in terms of protecting our freedoms as much as crushing over-hyped threats, both real and imaginary.<\/p>\n<p>It would require Labor absorbing a few hits in the polls as the government fired off the usual clich\u00e9d attacks on anyone criticising national security arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s three years until the next federal election. It&#8217;s a campaign not a battle. Labor can afford to ignore the polls for a while, if they have the stomach for it.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Coverage<\/h3>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/labors-plan-to-fix-australias-encryption-laws-doesnt-go-far-enough\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Bill to require judicial oversight and a clarification of definitions is a great start, Labor says, but the Assistance and Access regime needs reining in much more tightly.<br \/>\nREAD MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zdnet-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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