Australian telcos coughed to cops 600,000 times in one year

Australia's telecommunications companies disclosed information to Australian authorities 600,019 times in 2014/15, according to the annual reports of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The new report (PDF) lists “Disclosures made under Part 13 of the Telecommunications Act 1997— by carriers and carriage …

[Mark 65]

Can we have a table of requests per 100,000 of population (or similar) so we can formulate an "Orwellian Arsehole" chart?

[Simon Sharwood, Reg APAC Editor]

Find us the data and we'll do it. How about we start with the G20?

[Mark 65]

I'd imagine this data doesn't "want to be free"

[czthomas]

So you think stalkers and abusive ex-husbands should be able to text threats and abuse at their victims and get away with it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone know of a cave for rent?

Near a beach would be good.

Mobile network coverage unimportant.

[czthomas]

Nothing to worry about

"the disclosures were made before Australia enforced collection of communications metadata, a measure we're told is necessary because authorities need more access to information"

er,...as the article says, the disclosures were made under the 1979 Telecomms Act, so *after* Australia enforced collection of comms metadata.

And if you'd read the Senate submissions, you would know that the problem wasn't that they needed *more* information, the problem was that new-fangled cowboy ISP operations were declining to help police and/or failing to keep any records of communications using technologies that were not around and were therefore not mentioned in the 1979 Act.

[Anonymous Coward]

A rough calculation...

A rough calculation based on data from the usual dubious and unreliable sources (aka the Internet) suggests that 600K requests works out as 12 per police officer per year.

Is that too high or too low?