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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."
What's depressing is that Australians probably won't take to the streets about this issue.
Really? I'm surprised Australians are even still allowed to take to the streets!
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
with the inevitable result that your internet browsing history will be used against people trying to resist demands during divorce.
why would my internet history be used against others in divorce court? I don't see how that kind of evidence would be relevant.
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...
Get a good VPN out to a another country.
A good VPN would just show a VPN ip range as logged with your ISP.
Ensure the VPN covers all web use and services not just basic webpage use.
Laws could always change about how a VPN product is understood by the gov.
That VPN could be in a country with bilateral agreements, multilateral treaties or has same banking understandings.
The use of an Australian credit card is an issue. Track Australian credit card use to find VPN users. No local isp paperwork needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A request for details about VPN use in other countries might just results in CC lists been sent back.
Five eyes, nations friendly with the five eye nations make a VPN selection interesting.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
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!
"If you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide"?
Just today, as a result of following links from Slashdot or the BBC, or looking up or following up on things mentioned in those places, I've browsed several pages about Alessandra and Benito Mussolini, sodomy laws, some stupid anime video on YouTube of which I only watched the first 5-10 seconds (but which now shows up in my YT history just as if I'd actually looked at the whole thing), a 1990s serial killer in Washington State, nuclear proliferation, and the status of women under Islam.
A crafty lawyer or government agent could try to turn that into... God knows what... about me. In court. Where the burden of proof is suddenly shifted on *me* to prove that I'm not a closet Neo-Fascist/homosexual/serial killer/nuclear terrorist/misogynist/anime fan.
KGFY.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
What I do (for different reasons than stated, basically I want USA prices on online purchases, and no censorship restrictions on game purchases in particular):
1. Rent a $30/mo VPS in the USA. Some people will say even that is on the pricey side, but it is with reliable folks that I know and trust, and they're a legit green business, running "carbon-negative".
2. Sell (very) cheap web hosting and support services to a handful of US clients, which makes the VPS purchase totally legit, if anyone were to ask why I have this.
3. Run OpenVPN on my own VPS. My VPN traffic to my own server that I have for legit reasons looks the same as my legit support traffic via SSH to my VPS.
I actually make pocket-change level profit doing this, instead of paying for a commercial VPN.
Note, though, that I am replying to parent - this would do me no good in the problem presented in the OP here - as I do not obscure my local browser history at all, were the German cops to come and take my computers.