Will Govnt allow companies to offer communications services which can't be read?

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

The Home Office answered my last petition with a contradiction, so this is a simple yes/no question.

Encryption means people can communicate privately, so their communication is impossible to read.

This means terrorists and criminals can also have privacy.

Will the government allow this?

It is possible to send secret/private communications using nothing more than pen and paper and dice which cannot be read by anyone else, not even GCHQ or NSA. So terrorists and criminals can communicate anyway.

But the Investigatory Powers Bill asks companies to remove any "protection" someone has applied. This can only serve to invade privacy of the rest of us!

So the question is whether the government wish to allow iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, https, etc, with no intercept, or not?

Yes/No?

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We cannot accept your petition as it does not include a clear request for action from the UK Government or Parliament.

You may prefer to contact the Home Office directly to ask your question on this matter.

Timeline

24 Jan 2016	Petition opened for signatures
28 Jan 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 28 Jan 2016

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