[LINK] Senate committee probes AGD's data retention activities

[rene]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:27:38 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:55:57PM +1000, rene wrote:
>
>> That was largely about law enforcement panic about the need for
>> ISPs to retain data else the end of the world would come, etc.
>> Somewhere in Hansard back then there's a transcript of evidence by,
>> IIRC, a woman from Ozemail(?) representing IIA, pointing
>> out/explaining the difficulties and costs and privacy issues for
>> their customers of storing "telecommunications data" for 12 months
>> or whatever.
>>
>
> this mention of customer privacy issues and ozemail (who were one of
> the first australian ISPs to be hacked for their customers' credit
> card details) reminds me of something that seems to be being ignored
> in all the (valuable and necessary) discussion of WHAT kind of data
> is to be retained - and that is HOW the data is to be stored and
> protected.

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Excellent list of issues/questions, Craig. I expect you won't be holding 
your breath while waiting for any politicians/govt agencies to provide 
answers to that type of question!

And, fwiw, I've remembered the name of the 2001 OzEmail person (Mary Jane 
Salier - General Counsel, UUNET and OzEmail Internet) which makes it easy 
to find the relevant transcript of Committee hearing evidence from March 
2001:
http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/joint/commttee/j4733.pdf

Among numerous other things that talks about the amount of disk storage 
space needed, and costs, of storing HTTP requests, at 2001.

Irene