According to reports, last week Parliament of Australia has passes “Australia’s Assistance and Access” bill. This bill says that Nation’s law enforcement agencies have power of authority to force the organizations to hand over all the information related to encrypted communications. It means the law enforcement agencies will directly in contact or touch with IT engineer to get access such encrypted information.

In that case, when any organization will not agree with cooperation with law enforcement agencies, they will pay fine of AUD 7.3 million for non-cooperation, or even jail as punishment for those who refuse to pay required fine. Now, Signal app has blocked in Australia due to this bill.

Signal App Assistance and Access bill: What Signal Company said?

Signal app is encrypted chat app which has numerous users. The Company says on the matter that it is not possible for them to include background in the app in order to government access their information. It means that the Signal Company doesn’t want to involve or allow the government to access personal details or chat of their users. Now, Company has frustrated or fearing that their service could be blocked. Let’s take have a look on some key takeaways:

Attempting to roll back the clock on security improvements which have massively benefited Australia and the entire global community is a disappointing development

Everyone benefits from these design decisions – including Australian politicians. For instance, it has been widely reported that Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, is a Signal user. He isn’t alone. Members of government everywhere use Signal

Like many others, we have been following the latest developments in Australia related to the “Assistance and Access” bill with a growing sense of frustration

Although we can’t include a backdoor in Signal, the Australian government could attempt to block the service or restrict access to the app itself

Here, the Signal Company also states that:

If a country decided to apply pressure on Apple or Google to remove certain apps from their stores, switching to a different region is extremely trivial on both Android and iOS. Popular apps are widely mirrored across the internet. Some of them can even be downloaded directly from their official website.

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