[LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

[Christian Heinrich]

Frank,

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Frank O'Connor
<francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> At the moment, very few Australian Internet users take advantage of secure proxy
> services (like TOR), or strongly encrypted IP tunnelling (through a plethora of private
> VPN’s), or other application based (secure e-mail, routine browser based SSL connections,
> software update applications, gaming, proprietary - e.g.Apple, Windows etc etc -
> applications and protocols et alia) point-to-point encryption measures … but the proposal to
> make the already collected metadata available to non-government third parties for
> civil litigation (and possibly other purposes in future? Perhaps later on you could sell the
> data to the highest bidder?) will no doubt see an explosion of traffic on these high level
> encryption and data security services.

I still doubt there will be a significant uptake of encrypted services
based on the usage data published since 2014.

Also, I am aware that
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca191482/s3la.html
has compelled a person in Victoria to release their SSH Private Key to
an interstate host already so these types of technical controls are
less effective now.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Frank O'Connor
<francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> See: http://www.zdnet.com/article/brandis-rushes-to-release-telco-metadata-for-civil-proceedings/

The consultation is to consider the extension proposed by the
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS)
such as "family law proceedings involving violence or international
child abduction cases" to quote ZDNet and driven by the jurisdiction
issues when serving subpoenas overseas.

However, I don't doubt there will be submission(s) from rights
holder(s) seeking extensions specific to copyright during this
consultation too.


-- 
Regards,
Christian Heinrich

http://cmlh.id.au/contact