Australia plans to lobby its key signal intelligence partners at a meeting in Canada for the creation of new legal powers that would allow access to scrambled communications. The U.S. and U.K. have expressed worries that the wider use of encryption by terrorists results in potentially increased risks to pubic safety. Technology companies argue encryption protects consumers’ personal information and companies’ intellectual property from nation-states and cybercriminals. Australia doesn’t want “backdoors,” the term for a clandestine method to access and decrypt data.”]