Question follow-through · 35952
Cryptography: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that Government access to encrypted data is compliant with human rights standards.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that Government access to encrypted data is compliant with human rights standards.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. The Invest...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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