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ASIO Is Reading Your Encrypted Messages And Having A Laugh About It
ASIO’s head has admitted the agency’s pretty pleased about legislation enacted in 2018 compelling encrypted communication providers, like WhatsApp, to hand over messages if users are under investigation for serious crimes. In a speech detailing the agency’s threat assessments, he told the audience he was “happy to report that the internet did not break as…
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This Week In Your Metadata: Government Wants It, Telcos Don’t Mind
A Federal Government committee met in Canberra yesterday and today to talk about mandatory retention of your telecommunications metadata for (at least) two years, bringing in telecommunications companies and industry groups to share their thoughts and to face grilling from a line-up of senators and MPs. The general gist? It looks like the data retention…
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Facebook And Twitter Aren’t Safe From ASIO Snooping
If you use Facebook and Twitter or any other social media service, your private data is probably already stored by those companies looking to profit off you. But now, the Australian government wants to mandate that any communication service store a record of everything you do, so it can browse that data looking for suspicious…
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Australian Government Puts Data Retention Plans On Hold: Report
The National Security Agency isn’t the most popular government organisation in the US (and indeed the world) right now, thanks to its rather troubling obsession with collecting all of the things. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), is doing its best to keep up with its American counterpart, but its plans are going to have…