Australian Email Service FastMail Says It is Losing Customers and Facing Calls To Move Operations Outside of the Country Over Local Anti-Encryption Laws

'Email provider FastMail says it has lost customers and faces
"regular" requests to shift its operations outside Australia following
the passage of anti-encryption laws. The Victorian company, which
offers ad-free email services to users in 150 countries, told a senate
committee that the now-passed laws were starting to bite.

"The way in which [the laws] were introduced, debated, and ultimately
passed ... creates a perception that Australia has changed - that we
are no longer a country which respects the right to privacy," FastMail
CEO Bron Gondwana said. "We have already seen an impact on our
business caused by this perception. Our particular service is not
materially affected as we already respond to warrants under the
Telecommunications Act." "Still, we have seen existing customers
leave, and potential customers go elsewhere, citing this bill as the
reason for their choice. We are [also] regularly being asked by
customers if we plan to move.'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/02/25/1329204

That's what the tech community had to say earlier about this bill:
  https://alp.fail/

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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