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Data Retention Should Last One Year, US Gov't Tells Australia
mask.of.sanity writes "The United States and Australia will enter bilateral talks in an attempt to unify controversial policies that would force internet providers to retain logs on the online habits of citizens. The US has urged Australia to take a moderate approach as it drafts its legislation and said it should not keep logs for longer than a year. Some EU nations keep the logs for as long as five years, although European nations disagree over the need for the plan." And of course, that's also how long we should keep recordings of everyone's phone calls, and copies of their (opened) mail, too.
I am an Australian citizen, and the government should not retain any online data about me. If they don't like that then they can go jump off a cliff. I will not be voting for any political party that supports data retention in the next election.
On Techdirt. It's a censorship and surveillance map. Notice how Australia already shares the dubious distinction of spying on their Citizens with Russia? Of course we're spied on here to but not to the same degree.
Shh.
How about if the US just stops telling everyone else what to do?
That is the weak point that allows governments to set-up their recorders and track everything the citizens do. We need to find a way to communicate directly with one another.
Either that or an amendment by the Member States to the Union constitution that mandates ISPs, telcos, banks, etc have the same protection as private homes (i.e. require a judge-issued warrant to search a citizen's account).
Information wants to be expensive AND wants to be free. So you have Value vs. Cheap distribution fighting each other.
Sure thing, but only after the same is applied to politicians (no immunity allowed) and companies of all sorts, public and private, specially offshore banks. Also recording talks inside government buildings should be mandated, a good Nixon like scandal would be "nice". Maybe then good things that actually benefit the poor and middle working class can happen.
...are apparently thrown out the window when the magic word "Internet" starts getting used.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
...and let me tell you, one-year retention is EXPENSIVE. It kinda makes me laugh at the politicians who demand things like this, while they have no idea what such a system entails. Maybe the Australian gov't was planning on financing the tape libraries required to hold the PBs of logs generated every month by Australian citizens?
quaff down your Foster's.
You are obviously not Australian!
Fosters - the beer Australians wont drink
How about.. _never_ retaining personal data unless it's been approved by a court order, much like it _used to be_ for wire taps and surveillance? This is just wrong.
"Sheila" is not a name it's a gender, the word is thought to be derived from this celtic god.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
... I can't scream it loud enough MESH NETWORKS!!... if everyone had a $50 mesh network router in their house there would be no ISP or single point of failure http://www.open-mesh.com/ ps... I have no affiliation with open mesh.. just always dreamed of a day when the internet could become a mesh network.. and yes I know it's just a DREAM
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Trying to fix or change something only guarantees and perpetuates it's existence
software only available in .exe ??? :-(
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Trying to fix or change something only guarantees and perpetuates it's existence
quaff down your Foster's.
You are obviously not Australian!
Fosters - the beer Australians wont drink
Australians in the past would drink their own piss if you told them it had alcohol in it. Now they just export it, the crafty buggers.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Linux support works, but is still complicated to set up, so we can't really support it. There will be a tarball available as soon as we have it polished... We're just going from most popular to least popular platforms, hoping to support everything eventually.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
The Startpage search engine allows encrypted SSL connections and also the option of viewing the results through a proxy. For an encryped SSL connection to the Startpage search engine, type HTTPS instead of HTTP in the URL for Startpage. For example, either of the following will give an encrypted connection to their webpage:
https://startpage.com/
https://ixquick.com/
Then, after searching for what you are looking for, click on the word “Proxy” after the most likely looking search result. By clicking on the word “Proxy,” you get to view the website with Startpage acting as a proxy.
Presumably, the Internet providers logs would then not show what the user had been searching for and viewing. Startpage also does not record IP addresses or use cookies. Startpage is known as Ixquick outside of the United States. Below are two links that talk about the proxy feature of Startpage.
http://ixquick.com/proxy/eng/help.html
Katherine vs Google
Just for example, if I were searching for some information about some conspiracy theory I had recently heard about, I might use an SSL connection to Startpage, and the proxy option for viewing the results. Not wanting the government think that I might be one of those wacko conspiracy theorists, I might use an SSL connection to Startpage and choose the proxy option for viewing the results.
A government cannot force you to divulge something you do not and never knew.
Sure they can - if you can't provide decryption keys to them then when asked you go to prison. The government can take the stance that not having the ability to provide the keys it is your problem and not theirs. This is already the stance in the UK where 'forgetting' the encryption key used is not a valid defense.
Governments can also make it illegal for you to use a VPN in the first place, so the use of one is a crime in itself. Governments can also place the burden on the user to show that they aren't trying to sidestep encryption restrictions. The US already has something similar in place with the monetary transaction structuring laws.
Law enforcement agencies are already pushing for the very use of encryption to be considered "probable cause" of criminal activity.