Why Greg can't use encrypted apps and must open his phone for police at any time
www.abc.net.au
One phone, no encrypted apps, and sharing passwords with police: These are some of the technology-focused bail conditions faced by Blockade Australia climate protesters.

“Mr Rolles was arrested in late June, when he was pulled off the street in Sydney for allegedly blocking roads and obstructing traffic.”

Since late June, Greg Rolles must produce on demand his computer and mobile phone for police inspection, and tell them his passwords.

He is not allowed to use any encrypted messaging apps, like Signal or WhatsApp. He can only have one mobile phone. […]

These are the strict technology-related bail conditions imposed on some Blockade Australia climate protesters — a development legal experts have criticised as “unusual” and “extreme”. […]

Defence lawyer Mark Davis, who is representing some of the Blockade Australia activists, said the vagueness of the prohibition was concerning.

“It used to name the things you couldn’t have, and then they made it all encrypted communication,” he said.

“It could be you’re on your PlayStation.”

He also takes issue with the non-association rules, and the lack of specificity about what an “association” might be. Mr Davis said one of his clients had been pulled in by police after they reacted with a “thumbs up” emoji to Facebook comments […]

  • ree@lemmy.ml
    14·
    2 years ago

    What a shit way to live indeed.

    Remind me when France forced protonmail to disclose IP addresses of climate activist (I think high school students).

    Those governements are literally fighting for climate change, neoliberalism must be protected at all cost…

    Such surveillance law were never passed to save the children or prevent terrorism.

  • krolden@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    Yeah so the country was almost entirely on fire and a couple years later there was a bunch of flooding. Better throw the guy protesting the system that led up to these disasters in jail and monitor all their communications.

  • Sr Estegosaurio@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    Watafak, that’s not “extreme” that’s acting as if he was a terrorist in possesion of chemical weapons. This is surrealist. Fuck them all, fuck neoliberalism and fuck those fascists.

  • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    All this because they didnt get a permission slip signed for a protest and blocking a road. These people arent violent felons, terrorists are pedophiles. The usual targets for this kind of gross overreach, which has at least some kind of moral panic thrown behind it, are passed up in favour of using this on people who blocked a road. Absolutely disgusting.