Agree with most of what you said but:
> > especially in the US
> The app was deployed in Australia.
Australia has an even worse equivalent of US National Security Letters, allowing individual workers to be compelled to plant backdoors etc..
> > especially in the US
> The app was deployed in Australia.
Australia has an even worse equivalent of US National Security Letters, allowing individual workers to be compelled to plant backdoors etc..
Oh? The reports I read were that they could compel an individual to do something and not tell their employer.
I'm as suspicious about the Assistance and Access Bill as anyone, but the "telling an employee to implement a backdoor without telling their employer" is really a red herring and I don't know why the Australian tech community was so keen to go along with that.
Why not leave it at the employer? Just because won't cut it.
Eh, from where I'm sitting, that's a pretty common tactic to pacify opposition to legislation that grants the government too much power.
I would need to re-read the act, but the gov website[1] indicates you are correct that these requests are served to organisations and not individuals excepting sole traders.
[1] https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...