[AusNOG] PJCIS report on data retention bill has been posted

[Paul Wilkins]

Even at this stage we don't have a conclusive specification of metadata,
and what is being proposed has varied widely between who is talking
(Turnbull vs Brandis), who they're speaking to, and the phase of the moon.
Much of what's been fed to the media is only a vague reflection of the text
of the actual bill (which at the end of the day, is all that matters). That
and perhaps what the Communications Access Coordinator decides to define as
metadata, if they're to be delegated the power to define metadata (a very
big question). If they are, they will have more power than is consistent
with democratic norms of policing free speech. If they don't, the data
retention regime will need new legislation for every new technology, and
so, the regime will be unworkable.

Today's PJCIS report states that the specification of metadata is still a
work in progress of its Expert Working Group. But even this is not
conclusive, and subject to negotiation with Labor.

Paul Wilkins

On 27 February 2015 at 18:07, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> On 27 Feb 2015, at 4:10 pm, Paul Julian <paul at oxygennetworks.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> “The Bill explicitly excludes anything that is web-browsing history or
> could amount to web-browsing history, such as a URL or IP address to which
> a person has browsed.”
> I was under the impression from reading previous information that
> source/dest addresses were going to be part of the data set ?
>
>
> Yes, I raised that in my submission at length.
>
> Also included is tracking of emails which I don’t recall seeing before,
>
>
> Really? So you, like, haven’t been following it at all then?
>
>   - mark
>
>
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