It's a great time to be a record or movie company lawyer. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote:
> So the bill has passed, opposed by everyone but the two major parties. Oh > well, it's not all bad, as at least it was nice to see Libs and Labs > finally cooperate on something, anything, and I'm sure they know what's > best for us! Now, I don't want my metadata, or anything tracked by the > government, and perhaps there are others in here who feel the same way. > Senator Ian McDonald said that if you have nothing to hide then you having > nothing to worry about, but I would urge him to go to Brandis' bookshelves > and look for a book on the 20th history of Europe to see if that changes > his mind. > > There are many overlapping questions here ... Exactly what is being > stored? Who stores the metadata where? How is the data protected? Who can > access it? How much will it cost the end users? > > I learned in a radio interview this week that metadata for offshore > webmail accounts like Gmail and Hotmail cannot be retained by Australian > ISPs (I hope this is true). I presume that Australian officials will have > to jump through unchanged hoops to request information about such accounts > and activity, and I hope these hoops are reasonably narrow. > > I'm not sure if they're planning to retain web browsing data, does anyone > know? If so, rumours have it that using a foreign VPN is the easiest way > around this. If so again, is it not too much of a burden to setup and run? > > I reckon it would be cheaper if the Australian government just paid for a > live data fed from Facebook and Google, as they already know more about us > than the NSA. > > TGIF, Greg >
