ALMATY - Kazakhstan has halted the implementation of an internet surveillance system criticized by lawyers as illegal, with the government describing its initial rollout as a test.
Mobile phone operators in the oil-rich Central Asian nation’s capital, Nur-Sultan, had asked customers to install an encryption certificate on their devices or risk losing internet access. The certificate allowed users’ traffic to be intercepted by the government, circumventing encryption used by email and messaging applications.
But late on Tuesday, Kazakhstan’s State Security Committee said in a statement that the certificate rollout was simply a test which has now been completed. Users can remove the certificate and use internet as usual, it said.
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Parce que c'est une technologie française?
Halts or eliminates? There's a difference.