Posted By Shivniel Gounder

Privacy vs Security

Similar to the United States law, new China’s counter terrorism bill looks at encryption. The law when taken effect will require communication firms to assist in decryption the data and any technical support.
China’s top legislature, Li Shouwei said that the law is basically the same as other countries.

“The clause reflects lessons China has learned from other countries and is a result of wide solicitation of public opinion,” he added.

It will not affect companies’ normal business nor install backdoors to infringe intellectual property rights, or … citizens freedom of speech on the internet and their religious freedom

The law also stipulates that telecom operators and ISPs should prevent dissemination of information on terrorism and extremism. The communication operators who fail to provide support may be subjected to more than $30,000. In some cases people may be held by authorities for up to 15 days.

If you have a backdoor, that backdoor is for everybody, for good and bad guys”…I don’t believe that the tradeoff here is privacy versus national security. – Tim Cook