Irish Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill
The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware use.
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The Bill will bring communications from IoT devices, email services, and electronic messaging platforms into scope, “whether encrypted or not.”
In a similar way to how certain other governments want to compel encrypted messaging services to unscramble packets of interest, Ireland’s announcement also failed to explain exactly how it plans to do this.
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The government said it will follow the EU Commission’s (EC) roadmap for law enforcement data interception, including a section on encryption issues, which it published last year.
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