The ABC (Australia) reports:
A battle is brewing between telecommunications companies and the Federal Government over further national security laws.
The Coalition Government wants to force telcos to do more to protect their networks and infrastructure from attack, and wants to give itself the power to directly intervene in the companies when there is a security risk.
The telcos are worried those powers are too broad, too intrusive and give Government unfettered access to their documents.
Obviously the government wants it both ways: telcos have to be secure from all attacks except "friendly" ones from the spooks in Canberra.
(Score: 3, Touché) by captain normal on Wednesday July 22 2015, @02:37PM
Does that mean Australia is different from the U.S. where the Telcos actually own the government.
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(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Wednesday July 22 2015, @02:46PM
That's not true. Here in the US, the corporations are the government. Sure, they put some people in Congress and the White House as scapegoats^Wfigureheads, but we all know what's going on at this point.
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(Score: 1, Redundant) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday July 22 2015, @04:25PM
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday July 23 2015, @04:12AM
In a sense. They are losing the battle though because the Government essentially has a bottomless pocket. As an example, the government has been trying to get telcos to be non-neutral and apply filtering/censorship. They've been unsuccessful in the past, but the recent round they've been able to get the bill passed.
There's resistance, so in that it is different. But in reality, it is moot as the government eventually ends up getting what it wants which is state control. Democracy has a bitter taste nowadays, the devil sure knows how to embrace and corrupt from the inside.