[Thread] New UK-US treaty grants UK courts options similar to those of the US for obtaining message content, but won't change the status quo on E2E encryption
It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
This is getting some attention from people thinking this means backdoors, but I'm 99% sure this is simply wrong. The CLOUD act has many problems but it does NOT require breaking encryption https://twitter.com/...
This thread 💯 + two caveats: 1- I disagree w Alex on adequacy of human rights protections in the law. Lots on this by @accessnow eg https://www.accessnow.org/... 2- UK law authorizes back doors even if the agreements don't. UK LE will likely push the line & courts will need to st…
US and UK agree on some streamlined MLATs to share information they already have. Bloomberg makes it about WhatsApp and muddles it with the encryption debate. #1 on HN as “US and UK agree to force WhatsApp backdoor”. Comments rage against backdoors. Well done to all involved. htt…
Not sure I understand what's new here... they're not mandating backdoors, right? If not, what're they doing other than having companies hand over data like they already do? https://twitter.com/...
The two year thing is total nonsense. The UK-US agreement doesn't change access to end-to-end encrypted services. Other than that, spot on. https://twitter.com/...