Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?

12 Dec 2018 • 1password.com

One of the most disturbing things about the Assistance and Access Act is that it apparently authorizes the Australian government to compel someone subject to its laws to surreptitiously take actions that harm our customers’ privacy and security without revealing that to us. Would an Australian employee of 1Password be forced to lie to us and do something that we would definitely object to?

We do not, at this point, know whether it will be necessary or useful to place extra monitoring on people working for 1Password who may be subject to Australian laws.

Yikes. What a terrible thing to have to worry about as a company responsible for protecting people’s private journals.