<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Brandis: Metadata Retention Not Against Global Trend</span></font><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Attorney-general George Brandis has spoken out in defence of the proposed mandatory metadata legislation introduced to Parliament last week – rejecting suggestions that the measures are out of step with global directions.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Appearing on the ABC’s “Q&A” program, Brandis “fundamentally disagreed” with an audience </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">suggestion that the proposed regime was “against a global trend,” particularly given comments earlier this year from the European Court of Justice criticising metadata retention. “Although it is true that the European Court of Justice, in April, struck down the European Data Directive... in the same decision in which it struck the European Data Directive down, it also said that laws mandating the retention of metadata were consistent with the right to privacy and were consistent with a person's right to their personal data, both rights recognised by the European Human Rights Charter,” argued Brandis. “They struck that particular data directive down on the grounds of proportionality – that the particular data directive was too sweeping.”</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">“Now, since that decision was made, all but four of the European nations whose metadata retention laws were struck down have enacted new metadata retention laws consistent with the guidance of the European Court of Justice and one of the four that hasn't yet, Czechoslovakia, is in the process of legislating at the moment,” continued the attorney-general. He later added that in a major child exploitation investigation in Europe, the UK’s metadata retention laws had helped ensure much higher prosecution rates than in Germany, which lacks such legislation.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Brandis also spoke to a recent backflip by Australian federal police commission Andrew Colvin, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">who’d originally suggested that metadata retention might be used to fight online copyright infringement – but subsequently revised his statement, saying that “copyright breaches are civil wrongs and that’s not what we’re interested in.” “The mandatory metadata retention regime applies only to the most serious crime, to terrorism, to international and transnational organised crime, to pedophilia, where the use of metadata has been particularly useful as an investigative tool,” said Brandis. “Breach of copyright is a civil wrong. 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