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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?
...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?
"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.
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