[LINK] Fwd: [PRIVACY] [apfma] AAP: AFP to use DPI to collect email metadata

[Jan Whitaker]

Any way to protect against this?
Jan


>Australian police to adopt technology capable of collecting emails
>Published: December 10, 2013
>Source:
>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/australian-police-to-adopt-technology-capable-of-collecting-emails
>
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>Controversial new technology capable of collecting and storing emails
>and other information sent via computer in real time will be rolled out
>by the Australian Federal Police next year.
>
>The agency plans to trial "deep packet inspection" (DPI) technology in
>February before a full rollout in April.
>
>DPI systems are used by many organisations as firewalls but they can
>also collect information such as email subject headers and message content.


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