Encrypted mobile platform coming

Australian company Ncryptcellular has announced the introduction of a new range of encrypted mobile devices to the domestic market.

The company indicates that development is in response to the recently passed metadata collection laws, which essentially enables the government to perform mass surveillance. Ncryptcellular is quick to point out that these laws have been labelled as a violation of human rights by the United Nations (UN).

The new devices come configured with a powerful firewall and an IMSI catcher detector, which detects fake cell towers and a privacy manager that feeds fake data to applications so users cannot be tracked, providing a way to avoid metadata collection.

Company CTO Alex Kesik announced the handsets saying, “Our initial release is a range of three Android phones that we have modified so users can easily engage in encrypted phone calls, send encrypted messages, send encrypted emails and surf the internet using a secure browser via an anonymous network.

“We will be launching several other products over the coming months based on principles of anonymity, privacy and the detection of malicious individuals trying to exploit users’ privacy.

“The Australian Government has recently passed metadata collection laws to give it the ability to perform mass surveillance of its citizens and ridiculous website blocking laws. Metadata retention laws are dangerous as it provides technically untrained people the ability to spy and profile our private lives with ease. Everyday Australian citizens may have their digital lives analysed without their knowledge and their private communications violated by government departments that should not have access to this kind of information,” said Kesik.