On 13/12/2013 8:47 PM, [email protected] wrote: > The extent of use of these powers is surprising. And no less than 40 > government > agencies made 293,501 warrantless requests for metadata from internet service > providers in the 2011-12 financial year. Just 56,898 of those requests were > made by > the Federal Police. Centrelink agents, The RSPCA, Wyndham City Council, the > Tax > Practitioners Board and even the Victorian Taxi Directorate have also been > allowed > to access individual telecommunications data for a ‘law-enforcement > purpose’." (end > quote)
Absolutely, this aspect needs to be examined and tightened - who can access the information and why. For mine, only reasonably senior state or federal police should have the power to authorise a request. If the local library wants my IP address details, they can go through the police for it. P. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
