Greens seek amendments as Senate opens metadata debate
The Australian Greens proposed several amendments to the data retention bill that they said address privacy and security gaps in the legislation.
The Australian Greens proposed several amendments to the data retention bill that they said address privacy and security gaps in the legislation.
Twitter received 10 emergency requests for user data from the Australian government in the second half of 2014.
Although NSA officials were not sure about what all documents Edward Snowden took with him, they've changed their tune a few times after some new leak proves their previous proclamations to be false...like when former NSA Chief Keith Alexander admitted to lying about phone surveillance stopping 54 terror plots. Despite a year of NSA officials claiming that Edward Snowden had access to reports about NSA surveillance, but no access to actual surveillance intercepts, that ends up being lie too.
As the price of digital storage drops and the technology to tap electronic communication improves, authoritarian governments will soon be able to perform retroactive surveillance on anyone within their borders, according to a Brookings Institute report.