[LINK] Five Eyes Governments 2018: Official Communiqué

[Stephen Loosley]

Australian Government
Department of Home Affairs

Five Country Ministerial 2018
Official Communiqué

    We, the Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Immigration Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, met on the Gold Coast, Australia, on August 28-29 2018, to discuss how we can better collaborate to meet our common security challenges …

The 2018 Five Country Ministerial (FCM) .. has matured to become the pre-eminent forum for collaboration among the five countries on domestic security issues ..

Ref: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/national-security/five-country-ministerial-2018


Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption

The Governments of the Five Eyes encourage information and communications technology service providers to voluntarily establish lawful access solutions to their products and services that they create or operate in our countries ..

Should governments continue to encounter impediments to lawful access to information necessary to aid the protection of the citizens of our countries, we may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures to achieve lawful access solutions.

Ref: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/national-security/five-country-ministerial-2018/access-evidence-encryption