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[Narelle]

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From: Narelle Clark, President ISOC-AU <president at isoc-au.org.au>
Date: Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:09 AM
Subject: Joint Committee on Intelligence & Security Report out




See:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=pjcis/nsl2012/report.htm


GEN: Parliamentary committee dodges data retention decision

JAMES HUTCHINSON

A long-awaited decision on whether the federal government should implement
a mandatory data retention regime has been sidelined by a parliamentary
committee tasked to look at the contentious matter.



The joint intelligence and security committee, which was tasked by former
Attorney-general Nicola Roxon in May last year to consider security reform,
said that whether a regime should be put in place was “ultimately a
decision for government”.



The regime was one of 44 proposals put forward by the Attorney-General’s
Department and security agencies last year as the committee looked at
whether to reform national security legislation.



If put in place, it would force telecommunications companies like Telstra
to hold metadata like phone call records and IP addresses on Australians
for up to two years.



Federal, state and local government agencies accessed metadata more than
300,000 times during the last financial year, but agencies have argued that
this type of information is increasingly unavailable.



The proposal attracted the ire of civil liberties groups and the Greens,
which argued that the warrantless system infringed on the privacy of
Australian citizens.



Though the committee did not make a decision on the matter, it urged the
government to publish draft legislation on the proposal that would ensure
that security agencies are unable to access the actual content of
communications without a warrant.



It also said any legislation should ban agency access to internet browsing
data like website addresses, and that the government should reimburse
telecommunications companies for the cost of establishing such a system; a
key sticking point for companies like iiNet.



More to come


from:

http://www.afr.com/p/technology/parliamentary_committee_dodges_data_FuIjuqFrH5NvYp7Rv77xpK



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Internet Society of Australia
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int ph: +61 412 297 043
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Narelle
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