Parliamentary committee says data retention should need a warrant

An Australian parliamentary committee has taken aim at the nation's proposed data retention regime, saying it fails tests of privacy, necessity and proportionality on several grounds, and called on the government to require warrants for data collection. The bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights last Friday ( …

[dan1980]

". . . it fails tests of privacy, necessity and proportionality on several grounds."

Which has always been obvious. The question is: do they care? The answer, as shown many times is: no.

Each time one of these people, be it someone in the AFP or ASIO or an MP gets up to spruik this policy, they seem incapable or unwilling to believe - or admit - that it is in anyway dangerous and a risk to privacy.

We're always told that be just don't understand. Or, worse, that THEY don't understand why we would be so protective of our privacy despite millions of us writing about our personal lives on Facebook and documenting our days on Instagram.

They want this and they have the numbers. How could it possibly matter what anyone says?

[Anonymous Coward]

Abbott and Brandis

Abbott and Costello of Australian politics.

They know they are wrong and doing evil, but they are going to do it anyway.

[JJKing]

"The question is: do they care? The answer, as shown many times is: no."

Of course they care; it's just not a core promise.