Reply to post: Re: Terrible no matter how you read it.

Yes, Australia's government SHOULD store comms metadata

dan1980

Re: Terrible no matter how you read it.

It's already 'unchecked'.

Access to the existing metadata requires no warrant, no judicial oversight, and can be given to ordinary public servants - such as a Centrelink employee accessing mobile phone location data to determine if someone actually went to their job interview.

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