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Inside Australia's Data Retention Proposal

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-have-nussink-to-hide dept.

bennyboy64 writes "New details have emerged on Australia's attempt at getting a data retention regime into place, with meeting notes taken by industry sources showing exactly what has been proposed. In a nutshell, the Australian government wants Internet service providers to keep anything and everything they have the ability to log and retain for two years 'at this stage.'"

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  1. Re:A classic example... by mabinogi · · Score: 3, Informative

    it would be true though. There can be many different (and unrelated) sites hosted on one IP address, and of course there can be many different pages on each of those sites.

    There's a big difference between logging the ip addresses used in tcp connections and actually inspecting the http and logging page requests.
    (Not that I'm in favour of either of them)

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  2. Re:Sup? by mabinogi · · Score: 4, Informative

    why?

    I don't see any evidence that the filter will ever go through.
    The government isn't even trying.

    Even if they win the next election with a majority in the senate (and currently it's looking like they might not win at all), to put it before parliament Conroy is finally going to have to write down exactly what it is, which is something he's been utterly unable to do to this date.

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  3. Re:Sup? by schwaang · · Score: 4, Informative

    I remember backpacking around Europe 20-ish years ago. You run into many Aussies on walkabout, and some of them complained to me that this one guy was pushing their politics far to the right. By controlling the newspapers he had every politician running scared. The guy? Rupert Murdoch.

    Murdoch's grip on the Australian press is extraordinary. Of all the daily newspapers published in the capital cities, where most Australians live, two out of every three copies sold are Murdoch's. Three out of every four Sundays are Murdoch's. In Adelaide, he owns everything, including the printing presses.

    At the time I remember thinking "Well, good luck with that!"

    Fox News and the George W. Bush presidency later, I'm no longer surprised by Australia's bent towards authoritarianism.