Australia's data retention regime starts October 13th says A-G

Australian carriers and internet service providers (ISPs) will be required to retain data on their customers as of October 13th, 2015. But just how they'll access the cash Australia's government has made available to do the retention is still unknown. News of the deadline came from the nation's attorney-general in a letter …

[psyvenrix]

cyberpapers, bitte

misread part of the sub title as "fund detention rigs"...

smiley face icon, because dissent is now thought-crime and punishable.

[Morrie Wyatt]

What part of AU$131M?

The minimum figure would be AU$131M of course.

Add all running and compliance costs as a 100% tax deduction.

The only way the government should expect this retention scheme to operate is a cost to the government, not to the ISP.

Let the costs be deducted from the politicians pay packets. See how quickly they would vote that through the upper and lower houses!

[borkbork]

The cheapest option...

might be to tunnel all traffic through a gateway in a more friendly country. It would keep the log files nice and small. Wonder if you could get any of the grant money to fund that plan?

[Winkypop]

Time extension please

Just until this moronic and spiteful government are thrown from office.

[TCP/IP but mostly IP thank you huggies]

DDoS storage limits

How much traffic is needed to flood the storage? I am sure it can be achieved by looking up cat pictures alone!

[czthomas]

Re: DDoS storage limits

"DDoS storage limits

How much traffic is needed to flood the storage? I am sure it can be achieved by looking up cat pictures alone!"

Looking up cat pictures generates precisely zero traffic that is subject to Data Retention.

Go for your life - all you are doing is wasting your download limit.

[Steven Roper]

Bring it on

Well, given that everyone I know, including even my ultra-law-abiding parents, are now hooked up to VPNs (predominantly Private Internet Access) and use them pretty much all the time, much good may it do Abbott and Co to spy on us. What's even funnier is that by enacting intrusive data retention laws that made everyone in this country jump onto the VPN bandwagon, the Abbott government has effectively also hobbled its internet filter as well. Our politicians are so incompetent they can't even oppress their own people efficiently!

[czthomas]

Re: Bring it on

So everybody you know,

- wants to massively slow down their internet access,

- wants to subject their personal and private data to dodgy foreign servers in dodgy foreign countries,

- thinks a foreign company can be better trusted with their privacy than can their local ISP who is subject to Australian privacy and contract law,

- has no clue and thinks that a VPN will encrypt something that is subject to Data Retention.

...says a bit about your social circle, really....