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Australian Courts Will Be Able To See Your Browsing History
An anonymous reader writes A series of slips by the nation's top cop followed by communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has made Australia's data retention bill even more of a potential horror than it seemed when it was introduced last week, writes Richard Chirgwin in an article about Australia's new legislation. "Lawyers are already gathering, telling the ABC's PM program that metadata could be demanded in family law cases and insurance cases." It continues, with the inevitable result that your internet browsing history will be used against people trying to resist demands during divorce. "What's depressing is that Australians probably won't take to the streets about this issue."
If using DuckDuckGo, then maybe you'll be presumed to have had something to hide; therefore, you automatically lose the action.
Such is the way of tyrannical systems which don't respect personal privacy...
This is exactly what is needed -- how long will it be before a prominent politician is sued and his browsing history is demanded by the party that is suing?
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Australia was pretty cool. Well, mostly - Queensland was always a rogue state. Sadly we've been going rapidly downhill for about the last 20 years. We're gradually turning into the US - but without the basic freedoms of the US constitution.