Today our Legal Director testified before the US Congress about a serious threat to global digital privacy. A UK surveillance power called a Technical Capability Notice (TCN) could force companies to weaken encryption, in secret. 🧵 - ThreadSky

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privacyinternational.org • 19 days ago

Today our Legal Director testified before the US Congress about a serious threat to global digital privacy.

A UK surveillance power called a Technical Capability Notice (TCN) could force companies to weaken encryption, in secret. 🧵

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privacyinternational.org•19 days ago

TCNs let the UK secretly compel companies, even those outside the UK, to make their products less secure if UK users are involved.

privacyinternational.org•19 days ago

Reporting suggests the UK used a TCN to try to force Apple to weaken its Advanced Data Protection, which uses end-to-end encryption to secure iCloud data.

Apple’s response was to pull the feature for UK users. We’re now challenging this in UK courts.

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5547/our-challenge-against-uks-secret-tcn-powers

privacyinternational.org•19 days ago

Once a company creates a backdoor for one government, others may demand it, too.

If you break encryption for some you weaken it for everyone, exposing personal data to hackers and foreign powers.

privacyinternational.org•19 days ago

What’s even more alarming is that these orders are secret.

Companies aren’t allowed to disclose if they’ve received a TCN, which is a dangerous lack of accountability.

privacyinternational.org•19 days ago

This affects everyone around the world.

A European company could be forced to break data protection laws under a TCN, and a US company might have to lie to regulators and users about security risks.

privacyinternational.org•19 days ago

We urged Congress to scrutinise these disproportionate, extra-territorial and secret powers.

Human rights and civil liberties are on the line.

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