[Likes=Signal boost] This isnt an article by a journalist. This is written by one of our *senators*, Scott Ludlam. When he says that mandatory data retention is an unprecedented attack on personal privacy, and the government has already put in laws to block journalists from reporting on its abuse, he absolutely knows what hes talking about. Heres an extract: --- Here’s what happened while attention was diverted elsewhere: Parliament kind of banned national security reporting in Australia. Anyone who discloses a new category of investigation (“Special Intelligence Operations,” for those playing at home) faces prosecution and jail time. We know why these provisions are there, because as the Government tells us, “the necessity for increasing the penalty has become apparent through recent domestic and international incidents involving the unauthorised disclosure of security intelligence-related information.” Two words: Edward Snowden. The Australian Government’s response to media disclosures of vast, indiscriminate, creepy and downright illegal mass surveillance by the US NSA is to legislate to prevent any such reporting ever happening here. Not just increasing penalties for disclosing the information, but throwing the book at anyone who reports or reposts the existence of an SIO. --- Approximately a 3–4 minute read, which you *should* read and share now. #Shareable #Auspol #StopDataRetention
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:19:57 +0000
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