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Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Information wants to be free by Anonymous Coward · · 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.