Australian Parliament Approves Email Snooping

brindafella writes "The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, reporting on a legislative change last week, says 'the [Australian] Government will have 12 months to access communications not only between the B-party and the suspect, but also between the B-party and anyone else. If you have unwittingly communicated with a suspect (and thereby become a B-party), the Government may be able to monitor all your conversations with family members, friends, work colleagues, your lawyer and your doctor.' The Australian Parliament's major parties combined to pass an amendment to the Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Act 1979."

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'm an aussie, but for server hosting reasons virtually all of my email is routed through the United States.

In other words, the CIA have been reading all my email for years now - why can't ASIO have a go?

Ve vill CRUSH You

[slipx]

Australia has a nasty habit of crushing freedoms... in fact, we're a fascist run country, no democracy to speak of. We also own 40% of the worlds uranium, so in WW3... it's GAME ON!