Australian Police Ask Facebook For Police Alarm Button

littlekorea writes "The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has requested social networking site Facebook install a law enforcement representative in Australia and introduce some sort of button in which users can immediately report online crime to the police in a single click. It is National Cyber-Security Awareness Week in Australia, so the AFP is on an all-out offensive — announcing it is also investigating whether Google committed offences under Australia's Telecommunications Interception Act when it harvested Wi-Fi data." Something like this has been in the works for a while.

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Is sniffing WAPs a crime?

[mangu]

As for google - they have deliberately been sniffing WAP's - and the extent of that means that they may have been breaking a law which has existed for a very long time in Aus.

Making it illegal to sniff WAPs seems dangerously close to - excuse me, Godwin - making it illegal to have Jewish grandparents. It seems that Australia has been, for a very long time as you say, a police state.