At 4:10 +0000 13/12/13, [email protected] wrote: >Sigh .. >"Warrantless Aussie surveillance requests were nearly 300,000 last year" >For 20 million of us that's *one person in every 66 spied on* and without >a warrant. One in 66 equals six Linkers. What a bunch of privacy perverts.
'Internet surveillance' may involve a single individual (person fetches content from a source not under suspicion) or two people. 'Telephone surveillance' involves two. Let's average it out and say that there are 1.5 individuals per linkage. (And let's assume a 'surveillance request' involves a single target. Although my memory is that circumstances exist in which n > 1). So, conservatively, we're up to 9 linkers. I think that's far too few, given the stirrers that float around this space! ____________________________________________________________________________ >Inquiry to Examine Australian Internet, Phone Surveillance > >By Ben Grubb December 13, 2013 ><http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/inquiry-to-examine-australian- >internet-phone-surveillance-20131212-hv5j8.html> > > >A Senate committee will examine internet and telephone surveillance by law >enforcement and security agencies after Labor backed a Greens motion for an >inquiry on Thursday. > >The motion was passed after several recent unsuccessful attempts to launch >similar inquiries. > >It was not supported by the government. > >Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam said the inquiry would break >"the complicity of silence about surveillance in Australia". > >It would also open up an opportunity for Australian experts, agencies and >individuals to participate in "a conversation of what surveillance is >necessary and proportionate". > >The committee will be charged with a comprehensive review of the >Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 in reference to >recommendations of a 2008 report conducted by the Australian Law Reform >Commission titled "For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and >Practice". Ref: <http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/report-108> > >It will also examine recommendations from a report tabled earlier this year >by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. That >inquiry was tasked with examining more than 40 potential reforms of >Australia's national security legislation. > >Ref<http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_repres >entatives_committees?url=pjcis/nsl2012/report.htm> > >"A review of the deeply flawed Telecommunications (Interception and Access) >Act is well overdue," Senator Ludlam said. > >"Amended no less than 45 times since the events of 11 September 2001, it is >the tool used to bug and snoop on Australians." > >Senator Ludlam noted that since 2007, warrantless surveillance of >Australians through access to telecommunications data has been possible, >with requests of nearly 300,000 in the past financial year. > >Ref: <http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/access-to-private- >net-phone-use-up-by-20--without-warrants-20121130-2amwp.html> > >"Since the revelations of Edward Snowden, the Senate has repeatedly voted >to avoid knowing what is going on until today, failing in its primary duty >as a parliament." > >Cheers, >Stephen > >Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server > > > >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
