Data Retention Should Last One Year, US Gov't Tells Australia

Posted by timothy on Friday February 18, 2011 @01:03AM from the governments-tend-toward-such-things dept.

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.

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This is bullshit by DMJC · 2011-02-18 01:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
Here's the map.. by headkase · 2011-02-18 01:08 · Score: 5, Informative

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.

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Shh.