[AusNOG] metadata conference on SkyNews

[John Lindsay]

Any new obligation on carriers and service providers should be subject to Section 51 of the Constitution which implies that government should compensate them for the costs. 

This is a new obligation so the LI cost arguments don't really apply. 

A well funded service provider might run a high court challenge. Wouldn't that be fun to watch?

John Lindsay

> On 12 Aug 2014, at 9:36 am, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:
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>> Now the cost of making that 10 days, say 2 years is partly if not fully recoverable, because every time a valid request is received, the ISP can charge the Agency ‘a reasonable fee’ for recovering that information.
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> Except that we (ISPs) need to foot 100% of the bill on the "off chance" someone will later ask for the data.
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> In 19 years I've had a handful of requests for such information.
> None of them came with the required paperwork - it was just Mr Plod turned up, unannounced and wanted information - was sent away to get the requesit paperwork, and never returned.
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> If they want us to keep the data that THEY MIGHT WANT but that WE would otherwise NOT KEEP, then I say they can damn well provide the disks and contribute something towards the costs BEFORE implementation, not "possibly, after the event, maybe"
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