SillyDog701

[Antony]

According to this news report, Australia Government is following the steps of the advanced United States of America with a new "digital wiretap" law that would let police force companies to store copies of emails and text messages. The Bill would let authorities issue a "preservation notice" to telco companies forcing them to keep copies of a suspect's digital communications for up to 90 days while police applied for a warrant to access the data.

All data can be archived and monitored, and the Bill would allow the information to share between foreign governments, which without a doubt including the very powerful United States of America.

And a side note for over-concerned American citizens, the US Government does not issue that many tap warrants after all.

Mr Copeland said Australia already issued more tap warrants per capita than the US.
"Based on 2004-2005 statistics, we (Australia) issued 2283 telephone tap warrants in that year," he said.
"We have a population of what, 22 million? The US has a population of 300 million, and it issued 1174, which is just ridiculous.
"It's just extraordinary that we can issue 20 more formal warrants than the US does per capita.

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[Mandrake]

Disgraceful. The Internet portion of the 'wiretapping' bill can be bypassed with a VPN obviously. This government has to go. Now.

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