[AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

[Paul Wilkins]

I guess the point is Paul, the Attorney General's Department and/or CAC
could fulfill this
function, if the bill were drafted that way. There's also need for a budget
for the staff and infrastructure.

However it's clear the intent and current direction is for individual
agencies to approach service providers directly, eg:

32(2)(2A) An emergency authorisation for access to data held in a computer
may authorise anything that a computer access warrant may authorise.

Where the emergency authorisation can be issued by any senior officer from
an array of law enforcement agencies, including the police.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins


On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 11:43, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au>
wrote:

> On 4/09/2018 6:17 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote:
> >
> > I'd encourage others making submissions to raise the same point.
> Government has
> > clearly not considered this dimension, otherwise the first cab off the
> rank in the
> > bill's phrasing would be to create a new agency, or identifying a single
> agency on
> > which to confer these powers.
>
> No new agency is required - there is already the CAC, now sitting in Home
> Affairs, who
> manages existing lawful interception and metadata activities on behalf of
> the various
> agencies behind it. I would have thought the CAC would be the 'natural
> home' for the
> single-point-of-interface, even though they don't currently (that I know
> of) deal with
> device manufacturers.
>
> Paul.
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