Pipe 1119F Many Australian Organisations Want Unlimited Citizen Metadata Access

Many Australian Organisations Want Unlimited Citizen Metadata Access

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Australians love their internet. They love their phones. Their government loves to suck up all of the juicy metadata generated by all Australian internet and phone devices to store for two years. Now, 61 organisations want their metadata feeding trough back. Unhappy with the recent law changes which has denied these organisations their seat at the Australian Metadata FreeForAll Feast they have all submitted their pitch to be hooked back up to the golden river of free access to everyone's movements down to who they talk to and when.

The question I have is, Why do multiple betting and racing organisations feel that they need everyone's private communication records? To track them down to pay off debts? The rest of the list is just as strange, except perhaps for Defence.

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2016-02-17 18:22
Many Australian Organisations Want Unlimited Citizen Metadata Access
bryan@pipedot.org
Australians love their internet. They love their phones. Their government loves to suck up all of the juicy metadata generated by all Australian internet and phone devices to store for two years. Now, 61 organiszations want their metadata feeding trough back. Unhappy with the recent law changes which has denied these organiszations their seat at the Australian Metadata FreeForAll Feast they have all submitted their pitch to be hooked back up to the golden river of free access to everyone's movements down to who they talk to and when.

The question I have is,: Why do multiple betting and racing organiszations feel that they need everyone's private communication records? To track them down to pay off debts? The rest of the list is just as strange, except perhaps for Ddefense.

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Doctor watchdog too (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-01-20 10:01 (#118FH)

Costs - Australian metadata retention (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-01-26 03:55 (#11VJR)

Slippery slope (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-01-26 04:04 (#11VK7)

Put the first foot down and whoops, there you go, sliding down at full speed.
Here's another organisation who absolutely 'must' have metadata - http://www.itnews.com.au/news/rspca-claims-metadata-critical-to-tackling-animal-cruelty-413817

This is why having this kind of data is bad in the first place and should not even be collected. Two years. Still no confirmation that the data is deleted after that time. So now the RSPCA wants to track your moments. Makes you wonder just how many organisations think that being able to find anyone anywhere at any point in time in the last two years is required for them to continue to their work.

The saga continues (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-02-01 01:02 (#12FM3)

The whole 'access to metadata will be limited' was a lie! (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-02-04 12:56 (#12WJZ)