Australian Spy Agency Offered To Share Data About Ordinary Citizens

An anonymous reader writes "Australian spy agencies offered to share personal information about law-abiding Australian citizens with overseas governments. This includes legal, religious and medical information, which was shared about this Canadian women. Departments in the Australian Public service has also been caught spying on citizens. Even low-ranking public servants can look up information such as phone calls and email metadata without needing a warrant. The target is not notified."

Alright, that's it

[Anonymous Coward]

In retaliation, from this point forward I'm going to make jokes about Australia being a country full of dim-witted criminals.

Q: What did the government do the public servant who broken into private computers and stole private data?
A: Awarded him with Australia's highest prize for thievery, the Stealybaloo Award.

Re:Privacy != Paranoia

[fluffythedestroyer]

crap... they'll know I went on porn sites...my life is ruined :)