Data retention: Got nothing to hide?
It recently came to light (thanks to some good reporting) that the Government has been fishing around with ISPs for their support on a new and radical data retention policy. This would legally oblige telcos to retain large amounts of data about their customers’ communications activities in case law enforcement needed them at some point […]
Submission to interceptions network security admendments
After a very short consultation period, the Attorney-General’s Department is soliciting comments on its exposure draft of ‘computer network protection’ amendments to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (Cth). EFA’s submission addresses our key concern that the proposed legislation provides a very broad exception to the prohibition on interception of network communications for the […]
Proposed new workplace surveillance laws
A substantial amount of media and public attention on the issue of workplace surveillance has been created by an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday 14 April 2008. That article quoted the Commonwealth Attorney-General Mr Robert McClelland as saying that Labor intended to give extra powers to intercept telecommunications to private-sector companies dealing with […]
Major problems with proposed Telecommunications Interception Laws
EFA has been actively involved during the last four years in efforts by the Parliament to deal with the vexed issue of interception of stored communications (e.g. email), and we have fought to ensure that there is an appropriate balance between protecting the privacy of telecommunications users and meeting legitimate needs for access by security […]