Security News > 2020 > October > Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything
The nations of the Five Eyes security alliance - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the USA and the UK - plus Japan and India, have called on technology companies to design their products so they offer access to encrypted messages and content.
Which is why the seven signatories to the Statement "Urge industry to address our serious concerns where encryption is applied in a way that wholly precludes any legal access to content".
The Statement ends with the signatory nations saying they " challenge the assertion that public safety cannot be protected without compromising privacy or cyber security.
The very fact the seven nations felt the need to issue it is surely notable, as many have already enacted legislation aimed at ensuring they can access encrypted online activity.
This new Statement seems to reflect the fact that even those instruments prove ineffective when access is allowed, but results only in finds of encrypted content that cannot be read. The Register has asked Facebook, Google and Apple for comment on the Statement and will update this story if any offers substantive comment.