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posted by janrinok on Friday January 06 2017, @06:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the lets-monetize-it! dept.

George Brandis, Australia's Attorney General, is inviting submissions on the possible expansion of access to metadata retained under Australia's telco metadata retention laws. Under existing law, telcos are required to retain metadata for two years, which may be used for law enforcement and national security purposes.

However, the committee also indicated that it was aware of the potential for unintended consequences resulting from a prohibition on courts authorising access to data retained under the scheme and recommended that the Minister for Communications and the Attorney-General review this measure.

Rupert's empire published on this last year, the ABC was late to the party with a story on January 5. I wonder if the AG and the communications minster are aware of the potential for unintended consequences resulting from civil access to this metadata.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:04AM (#450124)

    Traveling in a fried-out Kombi
    On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
    I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
    She took me in and gave me breakfast
    And she said

    Do you come from mesh net down under?
    Where women glow and men plunder?
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover

    Buying bread from a man in Brussels
    He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
    I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
    He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
    And he said

    I come from mesh net down under
    Where beer does flow and men chunder
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover
    Yeah

    Lyin' in a den in Bombay
    With a slack jaw, and not much to say
    I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
    Because I come from the net of plenty?"
    And he said

    Do you come from mesh net down under? (oh yeah yeah)
    Where women glow and men plunder?
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover

    Living in mesh net down under
    Where women glow and men plunder
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover

    Living in mesh net down under
    Where women glow and men plunder
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover

    Living in mesh net down under
    Where women glow and men plunder
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover

    Living in mesh net down under
    Where women glow and men plunder
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:08AM (#450126)

    Will the mesh net have pirated music for my lyrics?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:11AM (#450127)

      Sure thing mesh buddy! Let me just plug in the internet gateway. oh fuck

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:13AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:13AM (#450128)

        "Let's replace the internet!" always fails, as soon as someone wants something from the internet, mate.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:26AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:26AM (#450134)

          In the future of S.S.D.D [tvtropes.org] , the Maytec Consortium runs a very fast, secure, and expensive network. The internet is effectively run by the Collective of Anarchist States and banned pretty much everywhere else, though it's still popular because the Maytec network doesn't have free porn or bootleg movies.