German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to hand over user passwords

Re:German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to h... by Nextgrid on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:23PM (#21791941)

They can always alter the login code to secretly log the passwords in plain text the next time the designated users log in.

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Re:German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to h... by lima on Saturday December 14, 2019 @04:55PM (#21792564)

There is no law in Germany (or anywhere else that I'm aware of) that would compel a company to do this.

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Re:German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to h... by Nextgrid on Saturday December 14, 2019 @05:11PM (#21792670)

I hope there isn't. But my point was that in the event they are indeed compelled by law to reveal passwords, this would be the only way they'd achieve that.

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Re:German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to h... by lima on Saturday December 14, 2019 @05:40PM (#21792849)

See my other comment - the law is about access codes like SIM PUKs and drive encryption keys, not passwords.

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Re:German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to h... by haecceity on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:39PM (#21792067)

Gdpr violation?

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Re:German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to h... by anticensor on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:59PM (#21792213)

No, required by another law.

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Re:German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to h... by pjc50 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:41PM (#21792082)

There's an explicit exemption for state security in GDPR (and indeed ECHR Article 8)

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