Government still working on details of data retention funding
A government scheme to offset the cost to telcos of implementing their data retention obligations is still a work in progress.
A government scheme to offset the cost to telcos of implementing their data retention obligations is still a work in progress.
Attorney-General George Brandis has condemned Labor after a motion at the party's conference called for a review of data retention laws.
Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton has called on the federal government to extend the deadline for ISPs to develop data retention implementation plans.
The government has indicated that guidelines for the grants program designed to help telco’s implement their data retention obligations are on their way, but will offer scant details on the precise timing of the scheme.
The Attorney-General's Department has warned Internet service providers they must start preparing to meet their new obligations under the data retention regime, but the government is yet to spell out some important details of how the policy will operate.
Justin Clacherty of policy advocate group Futurewise has lambasted the <i>Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015</i> as a form of mass surveillance.
The government is sinking $153.8 million over four years into its data retention scheme.
The Internet Society of Australia has slammed a $131 million government funding package to help telcos implement the data retention regime. The funding falls short of estimated capital cost of establishing the regime, which will require telcos to retain a range of customer data for two years.
Telco industry organisation Communications Alliance says that a ruling by the Privacy Commissioner that will give a journalist access to so-called 'metadata' associated with his mobile phone service has "disturbing ramifications for the telecommunications sector and for its millions of customers throughout Australia".
An inquiry instigated after concerns were raised about the impact on the media of data retention legislation and law enforcement agencies’ access to journalists’ telecommunications data has formally been scrapped.
With the Senate passing the Federal Government’s data retention bill last week, there has been a great deal of discussion of “metadata”, what it is and whether the government ought to have access to it.
Telstra will store data that it is forced to retain under the government's new data retention regime within Australia, the telco has revealed.
The government’s data retention bill has successfully made it through the Senate, with the Coalition, Labor and the Palmer United Party’s Dio Wang voting for the legislation.
The crossbenchers have provided the "true opposition" to the government's proposed data retention regime, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam told a press conference earlier today.
The Australian Greens proposed several amendments to the data retention bill that they said address privacy and security gaps in the legislation.