[LINK] Government could demand Web history

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:42 AM 12/06/2010, Ben Grubb wrote:
>The government says it is considering the EU Directive. My ISP 
>sources say the government wants to go further that it, logging web 
>browsing history and emails. It's as simple as that.
>
>More light shed next week I'm sure.

Thanks for the heads up, Ben. I've already written to a Minister not 
involved (not AG, not Conroy) to suggest that this proposal is crazy 
and to please raise it in Cabinet as something really not suitable 
for a modern democracy, but fine in a totalitarian state.

The story is in The Age today.

Jan



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