[AusNOG] Metadata breach. No, it can't be true.

[Paul Wilkins]

On the one hand, the Fourth Estate has always been a preserve of Democracy,
and technology is empowering governments to suppress the usual democratic
safeguards of journalism holding them to account.

On the other hand, we're all journalists now.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins


On 28 April 2017 at 19:19, Brad Gould <brad.gould at gmail.com> wrote:

> I listened to the press conference and read the release on the afp website.
>
> The commissioner also took questions from journalists at the press
> conference and he seemed to consistently suggest the only error was that
> the warrant did not cover the journalist, and the totality of the breach
> consisted of a single telephone call - being caller, receiver, time and
> duration.  The target of the warrant was an AFP officer.
>
> So on the face of it that's a little hard to achieve if they accessed a
> journalists calling records.
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> On 28 Apr. 2017, at 17:59, Eric Pinkerton <misterpink at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Are you reading a different press release to me?
>
> On 28 Apr 2017, at 4:59 pm, Brad Gould <brad.gould at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I thought that the "breach" was that the AFP had, inadvertently, captured
> metadata about a Journalist, and that the active TIA warrant they were
> working under did not have provision for such – as that is a special case
> per the Act – a " Journalist Information Warrant".
>
>
>
> The warrant was for an AFP officer's communication, who happened to call a
> Journalist and therefor triggered a "breach".
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