[AusNOG] Data retention definitions

[Terry Sweetser]

Well ...  I see ...

[1] no harm in infrastructure owning CSP's gathering and storing 
meta-data of whatever they need to function as a business;

[2] a great deal of harm in that meta-data suddenly being open to 
inspection by the authorities with little or no judicial oversight;

[3] a lot of time and money being wasted on compliance to any scheme 
labelled "anti-terrorism" which involves no public scrutiny;

[4] no one at ASIO, AFP or the federal AGD actually catching terrorists 
using any current meta-data or any future specification of meta-data;

[5] scope creep in the wings where various LEOs and QGOs suddenly start 
trawling secretly through the meta-data for offenses, aka "big data 
policing";

[6] the completely scarey prospect of key escrow to allow ASIO, ASIS, 
LEOs, maybe even QGOs to inspect the clear-text contents of SSL;

[7] a warrant-less copyright infringement warning and/or enforcement 
scheme that uses the meta-data for the benefit of "big content";

[8] a complete lack of leadership and funding from the internet industry 
to attack the issues involved for the benefit of all.

To be blunt: letting the AGD get any of their proposal up will turn 
Australia into an electronic police state to put the Soviets to shame.

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On 29/08/2014 8:17 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
> The group of businesses in this forum will only be tasked to store the data if the proposal gets up.
>
> The proposal is less likely to get up if there is a broad campaign against it.
>
> You're talking about post apocalyptic practicalities. I'm talking about showing leadership to make sure the war doesn't start in the first place.
>
>     - mark