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Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 4, 2012 @06:25AM from the you-can-trust-us dept.

CuteSteveJobs writes "Australian Attorney-General Nicola Roxon now fully backs a controversial plan to capture the online data of all Australians, despite only six weeks ago saying 'the case had yet to be made.' The Tax Office, the Federal Police and the Opposition all support it, with Liberal National Party MP Ross Vasta declaring 'the highest degree of scrutiny and diligence is called for.' With all major parties on board, web monitoring of all Australians appears to be inevitable."

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Information wants to be free by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-04 06:27 · Score: 5, Interesting

One country at a time, the governments are putting in place the function to collect all data so it can be freed by hackers.
Re:I find this hard to believe by iplayfast · 2012-09-04 06:35 · Score: 4, Interesting

I can't wait for wikileaks to start posting private info from all the politicans that proposed this bill. ALL YOUR BASE and so on.
Re:Translation by anomaly256 · 2012-09-04 09:54 · Score: 4, Interesting

You forget that the Australian AG is in the pockets of the MPAA/RIAA who absolutely want this information by any means possible. You forget that the AG office completely own and controls the ratings review board here and makes copyright laws without court oversight.