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

[Brett Johnson (SkyMesh)]

Well someone noticed..

http://www.zdnet.com.au/telstra-halts-customer-tracking-339340404.htm

Brett

On 28/6/2012 12:02 PM, Narelle wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Paul Brooks
> <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au> wrote:
>> On 27/06/2012 1:36 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
>>> 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.
> IANAL either, but I did go briefly through the Telecommunications Act
> and the Interception Act yesterday to no avail. My memory has this
> sort of thing as exempt along the lines of carriers doing it for the
> purpose of conducting their business, and it exempts third parties,
> too. The intent is really for managing and forecasting traffic not
> really to the extent that this is going, imho.
>
> The act is on austlii folks - and I doubt there is precedent on this one.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>