Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-05-26
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Catherine Martin (GP), Dublin Rathdown

I thank the Senator for the amendment.
The purpose of the Bill is not to prohibit the use of technologies by providers of designated online services and, accordingly, I cannot accept the amendment . The technologies referenced by this amendment have legitimate uses. In particular, the reference to “encryption backdoors” would appear to prohibit the use of any encryption which is not end - to-end encryption by a provider of a private communications or online storage service. This would be highly disproportionate. It would have significant unintended consequences, especially for providers of business-to-business technologies such as various videoconferencing solutions which, for very good reasons, may be encrypted but not end-to-end encrypted. I will, therefore, not accept the amendment.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-26