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Being the the country with the weakest civil rights protections in the 5 eyes allows us to be used as a test bed.

If this thing goes smoothly, expect the same to be attempted in UK, US, NZ and CA.

It doesn't need to be implemented anywhere else, the wording of the legislation specifically says they can ask on behalf of other nations.

I think, you are right. It looks like governments globally are doing it. It may be a good indicator that encryption actually is hard for them at least on big scale. Russia also introduced a law year ago that forces companies to help "police" decrypt traffic, it works very selectively now though. It has of course nothing with criminals or terrorists, there is something more. :)

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