<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hot potato, yeah yeah yeah.<div><br></div><div> - mark</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 24, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Narelle <<a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Narelle Clark, President ISOC-AU</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:president@isoc-au.org.au">president@isoc-au.org.au</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:09 AM<br>Subject: Joint Committee on Intelligence & Security Report out<br><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>See:<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=pjcis/nsl2012/report.htm" target="_blank">http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=pjcis/nsl2012/report.htm</a>
<br><br><br></span>GEN: Parliamentary committee dodges data retention decision <br><p>JAMES HUTCHINSON</p><p>A long-awaited decision on whether the federal government
should implement a mandatory data retention regime has been sidelined by a
parliamentary committee tasked to look at the contentious matter.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>The joint intelligence and security committee, which was
tasked by former Attorney-general Nicola Roxon in May last year to consider
security reform, said that whether a regime should be put in place was
“ultimately a decision for government”.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>The regime was one of 44 proposals put forward by the
Attorney-General’s Department and security agencies last year as the committee
looked at whether to reform national security legislation.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>If put in place, it would force telecommunications
companies like Telstra to hold metadata like phone call records and IP
addresses on Australians for up to two years.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Federal, state and local government agencies accessed
metadata more than 300,000 times during the last financial year, but agencies
have argued that this type of information is increasingly unavailable.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>The proposal attracted the ire of civil liberties groups
and the Greens, which argued that the warrantless system infringed on the
privacy of Australian citizens.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Though the committee did not make a decision on the
matter, it urged the government to publish draft legislation on the proposal
that would ensure that security agencies are unable to access the actual
content of communications without a warrant.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>It also said any legislation should ban agency access to
internet browsing data like website addresses, and that the government should
reimburse telecommunications companies for the cost of establishing such a
system; a key sticking point for companies like iiNet.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>More to come</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
from:<br><p><a href="http://www.afr.com/p/technology/parliamentary_committee_dodges_data_FuIjuqFrH5NvYp7Rv77xpK" target="_blank">http://www.afr.com/p/technology/parliamentary_committee_dodges_data_FuIjuqFrH5NvYp7Rv77xpK</a></p>
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<br><div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br><br>Narelle Clark<br>President<br>Internet Society of Australia<br>ph: 0412 297 043<br>int ph: <a href="tel:%2B61%20412%20297%20043" value="+61412297043" target="_blank">+61 412 297 043</a><br>
<a href="mailto:president@isoc-au.org.au" target="_blank">president@isoc-au.org.au</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br><br>Narelle<br><a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank">narellec@gmail.com</a>
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