[AusNOG] Telstra's Texan Teaser - Tin Foil Stetsun anyone?

[Paul Brooks]

On 27/06/2012 1:36 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
> Quite.
>
> In the PSTN days it'd never even occur to anyone to spark a controversy
> like this, because carriers didn't sell transcripts of everyone's phone
> activitie to third parties.
>
> But those same carriers seem to think nothing of not only disclosing
> who everyone is communicating with, but in some cases even sending the
> contents of the communications themselves (e.g., "GET http://foo HTTP/1.0" --
> that's call content, not call metadata!)

IANAL, but this may contravene the Telecommunications (Interception and access) Act
1979 - Sect 7 seems to apply.

This communication has clearly been intercepted while passing over a
telecommunications system, between handset device and webserver device. It has also
been recorded, stored, and sent to another person.

A real lawyer aught to have a look at that.

P.