Australian Telco Causes Minor Panic While Preparing Web Filter

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @06:14PM from the don't-scare-the-wallabies dept.

Twisted64 writes "Australia's largest telco, Telstra, has been frightening users of its mobile data services for the last week. Logging revealed that HTTP requests from a mobile device on Telstra's network were duplicated with a request from another server, located in Chicago. Eyebrows were raised on the Whirlpool forums, with fears that Telstra was giving up Australian browsing data to a U.S. company and therefore the U.S. government. Following a well-worded letter, Telstra revealed today that the reason for this behavior is that the company is preparing an opt-in web filter. Personally, while the idea of my browsing data being logged anywhere does not fill me with joy, the idea of the U.S. government having access to it (randomized or not) is probably going to be enough to make me switch to an inferior carrier once my current plan ends."

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As a Telstra and Telstra Mobile user... by Sasayaki · 2012-06-26 18:43 · Score: 3, Insightful

All I can say is,
"It's opt-in. For now."

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Re:US Govt.? by ThatsMyNick · 2012-06-26 19:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

By "having access to the records", OP means the US govt (or a US court, under the request of some party, say RIAA) can subpoena the records. Not at all misleading.