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The News Of Tomorrow, Today
data retention
Sarah Basford
As of now, Australia’s telecommunications service providers have to store your metadata — records of your phone and internet activity, which can reveal a huge amount of detail — for two years. Approved government agencies can access that data without a warrant. It’s not private information, either. One way to…
In response to a Freedom of Information request, the Australian government has released a partially-redacted list of Commonwealth agencies that have applied for access to the metadata retained by Australia’s telecommunications providers as part of the Telecommunications Interception and Access Act. There are over five dozen government entities that want…
You might think that Australia’s draconian data retention law is a pain, but wait until you see what the UK Government has planned for its citizens: mandatory retention of browsing histories, unwarranted phone taps and metadata inspection for every single citizen. Welcome to Data Retention 2.0, where the UK plays…
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