United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 35954
Cryptography
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5 March 2025
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12 March 2025 · Answer
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12 March 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that backdoor access to encrypted data is not misused by unauthorised actors.
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5 March 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that backdoor access to encrypted data is not misused by unauthorised actors.
Source: Commons
12 March 2025
Answer
The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. The Invest...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-05/35954
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1781597
- uk · wq-1781597 · source updated 12 March 2025