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Peter Dutton confirms Australia could spy on its own citizens under cybersecurity plan:
Peter Dutton has confirmed the government's $1.6bn cyberstrategy will include capability for the Australian Signals Directorate to help law enforcement agencies identify and disrupt serious criminal activity – including in Australia.
By rendering support to the Australian federal police and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, the cybersecurity and intelligence agency would for the first time be able to target Australians, although Dutton maintains ASD won't be able to do so directly.
Dutton said law enforcement agencies would target terrorists, paedophiles and drug traffickers operating in the dark web – promising proposed new powers will apply "to those people and those people only".
Details of the new powers – which will require legislation – are not contained in the strategy, which says only that the government will "ensure law enforcement agencies have appropriate legislative powers and technical capabilities to deter, disrupt and defeat the criminal exploitation of anonymising technology and the dark web".
[...] Dutton said the new capabilities would be exercised only in relation to people "alleged to be committing very serious offences".
"If you're a paedophile you should be worried about these powers, if you're a terrorist ... if you're committing serious offence in relation to trafficking of drugs, of ice, for example, that's being pedalled to children, you should be worried about these powers as well.
"The reality is people are trying their best to groom kids online and ... people are trading gun parts on the dark web and it cannot be a lawless space. This law applies to those people and those people only."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @05:32PM (7 children)
terrorists = anyone trying to get rid of the seditious scum who run/ruin the country
paedophiles = paedophiles that don't have money
drug traffickers = drug traffickers who don't have the money to lobby government to get their drugs off the Black Ops Revenue List. aka small business owners.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @05:35PM (6 children)
Also, only the dumbest of fucks or pimps would sell meth to children. I suspect that hardly ever happens in real life. This is not the eighties, you dumb parasitic fucks. Only geezers believe that stupid shit and they are dying off. soon you will be left with a constituency that knows how full of shit you are.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday August 08 2020, @05:38PM
or paedophiles.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @05:40PM (3 children)
It never made sense in the first place. 99% of kids don't have enough money to buy even a small hit of most hard drugs, let alone fuel a habit.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:09PM
Yeah, but they don't care about 99% of kids anyway.
The kids of the 1% though must be protected from such terrible, terrible people - if they want drugs they should be raiding their parents' stash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:16PM (1 child)
THEY CAN FIND... ANOTHER WAY TO PAY
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday August 09 2020, @08:38AM
Meth-addicted kids selling their bodies to paedophiles to fund terrorism?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @09:10PM
what makes you think he's talking about meth?
he's obviously talking about designer 2H-O ice, and it's already being marketed to children in things like push-pops and popsicles.
the kids can get legal meth easily enough from their doctors. it's called ritalin.