metadata
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Phone Metadata Used To Track SA Coronavirus Patients
South Australian authorities have admitted to using phone metadata in order to track the movements of a couple infected with coronavirus after seeing South Korean officials do the same.
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Revisiting Metadata Retention in Light Of The Government’s Push For New Powers
The Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity, Angus Taylor, foreshadowed this week that the Turnbull government will continue to pursue new law-enforcement powers that would allow authorities access to encrypted digital data in the fight against terrorism, organised crime and online crime, such as cyber fraud and child exploitation. To assess the worthiness of this…
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The Australian Federal Police Accessed Journalist’s Metadata Without A Warrant
The Australian Federal Police have accessed the metadata of a journalist without properly complying with Australia’s new metadata retention laws, AFP commissioner Andrew Colvin has revealed. The breach of legislation happened earlier this year, and involved Australian police investigating the phone call records of a journalist without obtaining the correct warrant for the release of…
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The Australian Government Wants To Use Your Phone And Email Records In Court
Remember the data retention laws that were introduced late 2015? It forces telcos to retain metadata on mobile and broadband users for at least two years. The data would assist in criminal and terrorism investigations. Now the Government wants to open the data up to be used for civil lawsuits. It called for public to…