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The lack of judicial oversight in the Federal Government's draft encryption bill, of those issuing notices for companies to comply with changes that decrypt data, will ensure that abuse of power is the order of the day, the Australian Lawyers Alliance says.

Global networking giant Cisco has expressed grave reservations about several aspects of the Federal Government's proposed encryption bill, with the creation of backdoors one of its major concerns.

Apple has told the Australian Government that its proposed encryption bill would have the effect of weakening security "for millions of law-abiding customers in order to investigate the very few who pose a threat".