Greens push for greater protection of digital rights
The Greens will push for a Digital Rights Commissioner to be added to the Australian Human Rights Commission, the party said today.
The Greens will push for a Digital Rights Commissioner to be added to the Australian Human Rights Commission, the party said today.
The assessment process for telcos’ applications for financial assistance to help defray the costs of data retention remains ongoing, with any decisions on final payouts to be decided by the incoming government after the federal election
The journalists' union has condemned as an attack on press freedom raids staged overnight by the Australian Federal Police.
It’s close to a year since the Coalition government with the support of Labor pushed the data retention legislation through parliament, and the regime kicked in in October. However, telcos remain in the dark about how much funding they will receive to compensate for the cost of implementing the regime, according to Communications Alliance.
The Australian Federal Police has indicated it is not able to answer a series of data retention related questions posed to the organisation by independent Senator Nick Xenophon as part of the latest round of Senate Estimates hearings.
There has been a mixed reception from business to a draft government bill that would implement a mandatory data breach notification scheme.
Coalition and Labor Senators yesterday combined to quash a Greens motion that called on the government to wind back the data retention scheme.
A new Australian organisation aims to build a broader fight-back around digital civil liberties.
The most recent report on the use of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 revealed a startling array of organisations that employed the TIA Act to obtain warrant-free access to historical telecommunications data, such as call records.
Attorney-General George Brandis has not managed to assuage the concerns of a parliamentary committee that a system of warrants for police seeking journalists' ‘metadata’ is incompatible with Australia’s human rights obligations.
The Senate yesterday backed a motion introduced by Greens Senator Scott Ludlam that called on the government to explain delays in introducing a mandatory data breach notification scheme.
Civil liberties advocacy group Electronic Frontiers Australia has called on Attorney-General George Brandis to reject the majority of the organisations that have sought ongoing authorisation to access telecommunications data without a warrant.
A document released under freedom of information legislation has revealed the breadth of federal and state agencies seeking authorisation to access telecommunications data covered by the government’s data retention scheme.
Internet Australia has reiterated concerns over the gap between the expected cost to the telecommunications sector of implementing data retention and the government funding being made available to telcos and ISPs.
Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA) is seeking temporary authorisation to access telecommunications information covered by the data retention regime, a spokesperson for the South Australian government department has confirmed.