Australian Police Spying On Web, Phone Usage With No Warrants 78
New submitter i-reek writes "Australian police, along with government agencies, are accessing phone and internet account information, outward and inward call details, phone and internet access location data, and details of IP addresses visited of Australian citizens, all without judicial warrants . In the last two years, some states have shown an increase of more than 50 per cent in these surveillance authorizations, which can be granted by senior police officers and officials instead of a magistrate or judge."
Re:So what now? (Score:2, Informative)
So, as an Australian I know complaining about this is going to do jack. So how can we protect ourselves?
Become a member of the [pirateparty.org.au] for free!
Re:So what now? (Score:2, Informative)
I'd stay away from the Australian Greens if I were you, they're not at all like the European Greens.
Australian Greens (source: http://greens.org.au/policies/media-arts-science/arts- [greens.org.au] )
"introduce legislation to protect intellectual and artistic property rights."
European Greens (source: http://www.greens-efa.eu/fileadmin/dam/Documents/Policy_papers/Creation_and_copyright_in_the_digital_era_EN.pdf [greens-efa.eu] )
"We want to shorten the protection time to something that is reasonable from both society’s and an investor’s point of view, and propose 20 years from publication."
What?
Not convinced yet?
OK. Let me put the final nail in the Australian Green's 1880s era coffin:
The pre-decision draft (PDF) of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has drawn praise from the Greens, [zdnet.com.au] but the party says the devil may be in the fine print.
Pirate Party Australia has decried the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). [pirateparty.org.au]
Australians. You decide what future you want... but at least DO something!