[AusNOG] Govt wants ISPs to record user history

[Brad Gould]

Of course if they were serious about stopping all the "bad stuff" 
they'll introduce the same legislation to apply to snail mail and 
telephone calls.

/end snark

Its clearly unacceptable.  And technically infeasible.  What sort of 
labour think tank and focus groups are ok with these ideas?  The mind 
boggles.

Brad





On 11/06/2010 12:27, Peter Childs wrote:
>
> If they really want this stuff why don't they just ask google...  sheesh...
>
> On 11/06/2010, at 12:24 PM, Arkady Gundroff wrote:
>
>> Makes me wonder who will wear the cost of retaining said data, let alone making the API and paying for the interconnects to the BigBr^H^H^H^H^H government.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Sean K. Finn
>> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 12:50 PM
>> To: 'Rob Byrnes'; 'ausnog at ausnog.net'
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Govt wants ISPs to record user history
>>
>> Next they'll want an API so they can interact with the records and change them as necessary...
>>
>> I wonder if that's the next step.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Rob Byrnes
>> Sent: Friday, 11 June 2010 12:45 PM
>> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
>> Subject: [AusNOG] Govt wants ISPs to record user history
>>
>> http://www.zdnet.com.au/govt-wants-isps-to-record-user-data-339303785.htm
>>
>> Not only will there be a firewall to contend with, but possibly a data
>> retention policy ... where's that book I was reading ... by some bloke
>> called Orwell.
>>
>> Any members of this list been contacted for "discussion"?
>>

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