More Big Brother - Telcos are providing web browsing histories to police without authority

[Dry Rot]

Web browsing histories are being given to Australian police under data retention powers.

Law enforcement agencies are being provided with the web browsing histories of people under investigation using mandatory data retention powers, despite the federal government specifically excluding that practice in the legislation, the commonwealth ombudsman has warned.

Web browsing histories are being given to Australian police under data retention powers

Ombudsman says ‘greyness’ in metadata definition must be examined as the practice is excluded in legislation

www.theguardian.com

 

[NSWCROW]

Exactly like we all said they were gonna do.

 

[Power Raid]

Australia should be worried about recent trends but sadly our electorate demand the dilution of controls protecting us from our governments.

We have AI camera systems
We have the militarisation of our police
We have big brother on the internet
and we have had the electorate, post bush fires, demand the controls and safeguards protecting us from our military be removed

we are in for interesting times ahead

 

[Gigantic]

This was always going to happen with the retention laws.

 

[Gigantic]

Not just police accessing the data too ... nor is it only just your browsing history data.

It's happening all over the world

 

[Frank Bunn]

If you are worried about the authorities accessing your web history you should invest in a VPN.

I would be more concerned about the accesses on your mobile phone. Modern smartphones are always on, despite the off switch, with the camera and microphone enabled.

 

[Gigantic]

If you are worried about the authorities accessing your web history you should invest in a VPN.

I would be more concerned about the accesses on your mobile phone. Modern smartphones are always on, despite the off switch, with the camera and microphone enabled.

People would be surprised to know what most businesses are able to do with a wifi router these days

You don't even have to connect to a shopping centres wifi and they can detect where someone is based off the signals their phone is pinging as they walk around