[AusNOG] metadata conference on SkyNews

[Narelle]

You're thinking of the Telecommunications Interception and Access Act...
NOT the TA...

and a certian Sen Ludlum is chairing the current inquiry into same...

see:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutional_Affairs/Comprehensive_revision_of_TIA_Act


and some of us have even appeared before the August group.


Narelle


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Christopher Mclean <cjm at ausoptic.com>
wrote:

> Yes the Telecommunications Act allows for a bug to be put on a phone line.
> They do not require companies to keep phone calls for 2 years prior to the
> warrant, and the agency/police has to handle the data collection (call
> recording). Could you imagine the ourcry if call retention was required.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris McLean
> Senior Sales Engineer
> Ausoptic International
> 0431733557
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: AusNOG [ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] on behalf of Mark Newton [
> newton at atdot.dotat.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2014 10:11 AM
> To: Pinkerton, Eric (AU Sydney)
> Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] metadata conference on SkyNews
>
> > On 12 Aug 2014, at 9:51, "Pinkerton, Eric (AU Sydney)" <
> eric.pinkerton at baesystems.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Everything you are discussing below is already in place, Serious crime +
> warrant signed by a judge = subscriber information request – This has been
> in place for a while..
>
> Nope. Currently doesn't require a serious crime, a warrant, or the
> involvement of the police.
>
> Telecommunications data requests are administrative actions which can be
> instigated by any agency with an interest in the public revenue, all the
> way down to your local council's public library. They are now routinely
> made by such august personages as the Victorian taxicab board and the RSPCA.
>
> You're thinking of telecommunications interceptions, which do require law
> enforcement, a serious crime, and a warrant; and which have literally
> nothing whatsoever to do with the data retention proposal under discussion
> here.
>
>    - mark
>
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Narelle
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