Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws 47
schliz writes "Australia's parliament has passed a bill that will allow law enforcement agencies to force internet service providers to store data on subscribers while an official warrant is sought. The changes move Australia closer to its two-year-old proposal to accede to the 2004 Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, designed to assist with international cybercrime investigations through sharing of information on persons of interest, among other avenues."
Re:What is so wrong with this? (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes it give the police a smidgen of more power...
Yes, it's always just a smidgen each damn time this stuff comes up. You like being cooked slowly, I take it? Evidently you won't mind spending months or years battling against false positives or trumped up charges and other abuses that will happen? Because it sure isn't a matter of "if", but "when".
We're so independent. (Score:4, Insightful)
Look at us. We're so independent. We're one of the few countries with a working economy. We're insulated against all the bad stuff, we have our own resources industry. We could shut out everyone. We're so awesomely independ....
Ooooh looky here Europe is doing something to screw their citizens, let's jump on that bandwagon.
Ooooh America is passing laws that benefit only major media companies and punishes citizens, we gotta be a part of that too.
Yes I'm trolling.