[AusNOG] Metadata retention... it's now (almost) a thing

[Narelle]

Ross,
you're spot on.

The legislation pushes the definition to regulation. Thus potentially
a blank cheque.

err with no checks (of the other sort)



Narelle

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Matt Perkins wrote:
>
>> That fact's seem to be that this legislation will pass without
>> consultation outside the gang of 4 at least and there is little if anything
>> we can do about it. So the conversion should really switch to. What
>> technically do we need to do to meet the requirements of the legislation or
>> instruments. Can we clearly define that so people in our industry can work
>> to a place where we can all provide the same information and be sure that we
>> have not missed something that will cause grief down the track.
>
>
> My local federal member has just replied to me with (in part):
>
> "Telecommunications companies will have up to two years to fully implement
> the scheme.
> To prevent any further erosion of data, industry will be required to at
> least maintain their current practices for holding data during
> the implementation period.
>
> The Government is prepared to pay a reasonable share of upfront capital
> costs associated with the implementation of the data retention
> scheme."
>
>
> So, despite their earlier "assurances" that there is no requirement to
> retain things like websites accessed etc, that is absolutely NOT preculuded
> as being a (subsequent) requirement, as has been said on this list earlier.
>
> That is, this is absolutely "narrow end of the wedge" legislation, almost
> certainly subject to "feature creep" (or "scope expansion") over time.
>
> There is a great deal we (the numerical majority) are not privy to. I
> suspect (some of) the "gang of 4" have a lot more specific information than
> the rest of us are permitted to know. The secrecy, haste and ignorance
> surrounding this entire thing scares me. (I had written "astounds me" then
> changed it to "surprises me" but in honesty with the calibre of politician
> (and public servants) we have now (and have had for quite some time), it
> neither surprises nor astounds me).
>
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Narelle
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