[LINK] To protect human rights, identify and disrupt Australia’s “hacking Bill”

[Narelle Clark]

This bill passed the Senate unamended yesterday.

This bill has oversight for some categories by the AAT only. Not good
enough.


Narelle

On Sun, 22 Aug. 2021, 7:18 pm Kim Holburn, <kim at holburn.net> wrote:

>
> https://www.accessnow.org/to-protect-human-rights-identify-and-disrupt-australias-hacking-bill/
>
> >
> >             *What’s wrong with the hacking Bill*
> >
> > The surveillance overreach is extremely damaging for people’s privacy.
> The Identify and Disrupt Bill grants extensive hacking
> > powers to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian
> Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) through three new
> > warrants: a *data disruption warrant*, a *network activity warrant*, and
> an *account takeover warrant*. These warrants allow the
> > authorities to *“disrupt” – add, copy, delete, or alter – **the data of
> suspected**offenders*; *hack into their devices and
> > networks* to discern identity; and *covertly take over their accounts
> and lock them out*. Civil society has rightly criticised
> > <
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-new-hacking-powers-considered-too-wide-ranging-and-coercive-by-oaic/>the
> hacking Bill
> > for being “wide-ranging and coercive”, devoid of safeguards and
> detrimental to privacy.
> >
> > There have been efforts to improve it, but not enough. The Parliamentary
> Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS)
> > <
> https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Intelligence_and_Security>in
> Australia has recommended
> > <
> https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/committees/reportjnt/024617/toc_pdf/AdvisoryreportontheSurveillanceLegislationAmendment(IdentifyandDisrupt)Bill2020.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf>33
>
> > changes to the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt)
> Bill 2020
> > <
> https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6623>,
> subject to which it may
> > be passed by the Australian Parliament. The recommendations made by
> PJCIS include integrating greater oversight, judicial review,
> > consideration of privacy implications, sunset clauses, and assurance
> that it will only be used for the most serious offences. We
> > welcome the changes PJCIS recommends, but *t**hey are not sufficient to
> warrant passage*. In the interest of human rights,
> > lawmakers should reject the Bill outright or ensure additional reforms
> to protect people from the collective adverse impact of
> > Australia’s increasingly disproportionate surveillance laws.
> >
>
>
> --
> Kim Holburn
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