Re: Australia won't back away from data retention plan
There has been a meeting - an inquiry is in place - talk about fast, this was just discussed and now an inquiry in as many days? I didn't think anyone moved that fast?
Australia's police commissioners want to help draft laws that would allow them to access the public's telecommunications data for up to two years.
Police would ideally prefer the information be held by telecommunication companies indefinitely, so it could be accessed by police at any time
But the commissioners say their motives are "pure", and they simply want their crime-fighting tools to be brought into the 21st century.
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