[LINK] Spying on citizens? Who, us?
David Boxall
david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Fri Dec 6 13:20:52 AEDT 2013
A couple of articles from The Age, confirming what most of us probably
suspected.
<http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/telstras-data-vacuum-20131205-2yucb.html>
Telstra's data 'vacuum'
Date December 6, 2013
Philip Dorling
Australia's leading telecommunications company, Telstra, has installed
highly advanced surveillance systems to "vacuum" the telephone calls,
texts, social media messages and internet metadata of millions of
Australians so that information can be filtered and given to
intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
The Australian government's electronic espionage agency, the Australian
Signals Directorate, is using the same technology to harvest data flows
carried by undersea fibre-optic cables in and out of Australia.
...
<http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/forget-the-needle-take-the-haystack-20131206-2yudy.html>
Forget the needle, take the haystack
Date December 6, 2013 - 8:18AM
Edward Snowden's revelations about government survelliance have shocked
the world. Here, Philip Dorling reveals how Telstra is using the latest
technology to take your emails, texts and phone calls and hand them over
the nation's spy agencies.
...
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