Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S.

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 15, 2002 @08:23PM from the speak-up-mate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last year Australian authorities tapped more phones all United States authorities combined. Australian phones were tapped at 20 times the rate of phones in the US according to this article in the Sydney Morning herald. The fact was revealed during a debate in the Australian parliament. The government is attempting to pass new legislation to to make it even easier for the country's domestic spy agency ASIO to tap phones." Update: 09/16 14:07 GMT by T : Julian Assange writes "The Australian is also running the story and has better stats." Thanks for the link.

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Big Cobber? by alnapp · 2002-09-15 20:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

1984X?

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Re:About America... by Zeio · 2002-09-27 22:19 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I re-read your comment. I dont know why I responsed to you in that fashion. I was probably meaning to go anon on another comment.

Anyways, totalitarians and lack of du process are indeed scary.

Cheers, sorry about the mishap.

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