[AusNOG] Govt wants ISPs to record user history

[Curtis Bayne]

Ah yes, yet another brass player in the symphony of incompetence that is this government.

I wonder if old George knew that telescreens would come as big as 60" and play HD content too? :)


-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net on behalf of Brad Gould
Sent: Fri 6/11/2010 1:26 PM
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Govt wants ISPs to record user history
 
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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