[AusNOG] CA Data Retention costs letter to Ministers

[Skeeve Stevens]

Exactly. And since when a government changes, the security agencies don't,
they can scare any and every potential leader into 'what could be'.

Personally, I think they know the meta data collection will be useless...

This is just the first phase of their plans... I am wondering what they've
got planned next.  Will they follow the UK in trying to ban encryption and
VPN's?


...Skeeve


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On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 16 March 2015 at 12:59, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For CEOs to insist the government baseline the cost of data retention to
>> their businesses is no more than due diligence. Else, the government may
>> quite happily push the legislation through, with the industry carrying the
>> cost. But if the government has to bear the cost, there may be stricter
>> scrutiny of the bill's costs and objectives, all to the good, imo.
>>
>
> I don't think the government cares about the cost or who wears it,
> regardless of whether it's $4, $400m or even $4b (unless of course they're
> using it as a point to justify crying about a budget emergency).  They
> don't even understand the impact of the legislation to start with, and
> they're not the ones actually pushing for it - that's the AGD/ASIO/etc, and
> they don't care at all what the cost is, as long as they don't pay it out
> of their own budgets (which regardless of whether it's paid for out of
> government or industry funding, they won't have to worry about).
>
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