Ministers from the intelligence sharing alliance between New Zealand, Australia, Canada, united kingdom and united states met earlier this week to focus on the way to work with conversation providers to address terrorism.
however cyber web NZ says it's worried the alliance governments will appear to write new legal guidelines to force service providers to provide them "backdoor" access enabling encrypted messages to be examine.
The foyer has joined Amnesty international, Human Rights Watch, reporters without borders and seventy nine different corporations in signing an open letter, addressed to the 5 Eyes governments.
The letter accepts "the challenges of up to date day protection are actual".
but its signatories additionally say encrypted conversation tools are "relied upon via overseas commerce, the free press, governments, human rights advocates, and individuals all over".
They referred to as on the five Eyes nations "to recognize the appropriate to make use of and increase strong encryption" and decide to allowing public participation in any future discussions about the technology.
Thomas Beagle, the chair of fellow Kiwi signatory the NZ Council for Civil Liberties, says the companies supported "justifiable lawful intercept with appropriate oversight".
"[But] we don't think we should still be significantly weakening the safety of the information superhighway to achieve it," he says.
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