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Australians to Increases Surveillance Powers?
Anonymous Coward writes to tell us The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that new laws being presented to parliament this week would allow police and spy agencies additional power to monitor communications of people not suspected of any crime. From the article: "Under the changes, police will be able to tap the phone calls and trace the emails and text messages of third parties to suspected crimes. Police will have 45 days to monitor a person not under suspicion in the hope it will lead them to the person or people they do suspect."
I've said it before... If you're not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about.
Privacy is a two way street, you can't cry foul when the government wants to listen in for a bit, find nothing and then leave you alone, and then want the government to have more power when tracking down somebody who's double crossed you.
What do you talk about on the phone? I talk about my programming, my life, what's happening to my friends. I don't commit crimes. What's the person listening in going to think or care of me? Absolutely nothing, because he's never met me. If one of my friends committed a crime in an area I hang around in, and I talk about it over the phone, what's the person on the phone tap going to do? Interview me and get some more information, then bring my friend who beat up ol' Mrs. Jenkins across the road to justice.
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
My god what the hell is wrong with all you people.. if you're not doing anything wrong why should you care if the australian police force has an efficent and streamlined access to security footage and enforcing minimum quality etc?
I bet you'd sing a diffent tune if you were mugged in front of a provate security camera which gave no evidence because the process of the police getting the footage took too long or was of such low quality.
I can't believe all the tards winging about rights and privacy and how we're apparently living in a facist society. People who talk like that are nothing but whingers who have never been hit with the cold hard reality of a REAL facist society.. we are lucky to live in a country with as much freedom and choice as we do.
If you're not doing anything wrong then who the hell cares if the police could listen to your phone calls? or read your mail or monitor our bank accounts? you would never know and nothing would ever happen and nothing ever would if you obeyed the laws of this fine country..
You know i hear what you're all saying but it sounds like is
"blah blah blah i spend too much time thinking about things and like to seem inteligent and talk crap in pubs by taking the popular opressed point of view and parroting it as my own"