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

[Frank O'Connor]

> On 23 Dec 2016, at 9:43 am, Christian Heinrich <christian.heinrich at cmlh.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Jim,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I suggest you read lifehacker's pages on VPN.  This compares services and
>> is updated periodically.
> 
> I'd recommend https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/
> 
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The biggest user segment in Australia are people who want to access the
>> more extensive content on US Netflix, but there are other people who want
>> to hide their connections for various reasons.  In terms of metadata
>> collected by the Australian government, this should show a single encrypted
>> connection to single overseas ip address (which they may know as a vpn
>> provider) but not all the stuff you browse or access.
> 
> This is the core issue, their offering is for geolocation rather than privacy.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Christian Heinrich
> 
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