Coalition and Labor do deal on law enforcement access to encrypted messages

Bill could pass this week after government agreed to restrict new powers to serious crimes

Labor and the Coalition have come to an in-principle agreement on the government’s bill to give law enforcement agencies access to encrypted communication.

In a deal between the attorney general, Christian Porter, and his shadow, Mark Dreyfus, the government has agreed to limit the powers to investigation of “serious offences” and add new safeguards to agencies’ ability to demand tech companies build backdoors into their products.

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