| Title | Australian Government Increases Spy Agency Powers, but Avoids Data Retention | |
| Date | Thursday July 17 2014, @03:31PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the keeping-in-step-with-the-others dept. | ||
The Australian Government has introduced a bill to remove some "outdated" constraints their intelligence agency ASIO works under.
From the Article:
"The bill modernises the way ASIO accesses computers allowing one warrant for a computer to extend to all computers at a location and associated to the relevant person. The act will be amended such that the definition of "computer" in the Act includes all computers operating in a network. [...] It also proposes that only one warrant be required for a series of surveillance techniques conducted as part of an investigation removing the need for a warrant for each individual surveillance effort.
The proposed legislation would also allow Australia's foreign intelligence agency ASIS to collect information on Australians located outside the country and share it with ASIO which the agency is currently required to seek ministerial approval to do."
The full text of the proposed bill is available here.
On a slightly more positive note, the Attorney-General has confirmed that the mandatory data retention proposal he supported a few months ago has been put on the back burner, saying it was "not a matter that the Australian government has yet decided to do."
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