Written Question·Home Office·UIN 35954
Cryptography
Tabled: 5 March 2025
Answered: 12 March 2025
Question
Joe Robertson
Conservative — Isle of Wight East
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.
Answer
Dan JarvisThe 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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