[LINK] Inquiry to examine Australian internet,

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

> >"Warrantless Aussie surveillance requests were nearly 300,000 last year"
> >For 20 million of us that's *one person in every 66 spied on* and 
> >without a warrant. One in 66 equals six Linkers. What a bunch of privacy
> >perverts.
> 
> 'Internet surveillance' may involve a single individual (person 
> fetches content from a source not under suspicion) or two people. 
> 'Telephone surveillance' involves two.
> 
> Let's average it out and say that there are 1.5 individuals per linkage.
> 
> (And let's assume a 'surveillance request' involves a single target. 
> Although my memory is that circumstances exist in which n > 1).
> 
> So, conservatively, we're up to 9 linkers.
> 
> I think that's far too few, given the stirrers that float around this
> space!


Haha, all true. And good on our Senate souls for thinking the same about
this, and, passing their motion for a Senate Committee to investigate it.


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> 
> >Inquiry to Examine Australian Internet, Phone Surveillance
> >
> >By Ben Grubb December 13, 2013
> ><http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/inquiry-to-examine-
australian-
> >internet-phone-surveillance-20131212-hv5j8.html>
> >
> >
> >A Senate committee will examine internet and telephone surveillance by 
law
> >enforcement and security agencies after Labor backed a Greens motion for 
an
> >inquiry on Thursday.
> >
> >The motion was passed after several recent unsuccessful attempts to 
launch
> >similar inquiries.
> >
> >It was not supported by the government.
> >
> >Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam said the inquiry would 
break
> >"the complicity of silence about surveillance in Australia".
> >
> >It would also open up an opportunity for Australian experts, agencies 
and
> >individuals to participate in "a conversation of what surveillance is
> >necessary and proportionate".
> >
> >The committee will be charged with a comprehensive review of the
> >Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 in reference to
> >recommendations of a 2008 report conducted by the Australian Law Reform
> >Commission titled "For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and
> >Practice". Ref: <http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/report-108>
> >
> >It will also examine recommendations from a report tabled earlier this 
year
> >by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. That
> >inquiry was tasked with examining more than 40 potential reforms of
> >Australia's national security legislation.
> >
> 
>Ref<http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_repre
s
> >entatives_committees?url=pjcis/nsl2012/report.htm>
> >
> >"A review of the deeply flawed Telecommunications (Interception and 
Access)
> >Act is well overdue," Senator Ludlam said.
> >
> >"Amended no less than 45 times since the events of 11 September 2001, it 
is
> >the tool used to bug and snoop on Australians."
> >
> >Senator Ludlam noted that since 2007, warrantless surveillance of
> >Australians through access to telecommunications data has been possible,
> >with requests of nearly 300,000 in the past financial year.
> >
> >Ref: <http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/access-to-
private-
> >net-phone-use-up-by-20--without-warrants-20121130-2amwp.html>
> >
> >"Since the revelations of Edward Snowden, the Senate has repeatedly 
voted
> >to avoid knowing what is going on until today, failing in its primary 
duty
> >as a parliament."
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Stephen
> >
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