metadata
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Should We Trust The Government On Metadata?
If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear. That’s the catchcry used to defend the government’s proposals around metadata. But should we be trusting them with this information in the first place? It’s not as though they’ve done a lot to engender trust in the first place.
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Here’s The Sort Of Metadata The Government Wants To Store
Confusion still reigns over quite what the government means by Metadata, seemingly even within the halls of power itself. A leaked discussion paper highlights some of the things the Government now wants to know.
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What The Police Can Get From Mobile Phone Tower Data
Metadata is in the news again with revelations that police in Australia have been getting access to data collected from mobile base stations (cell towers). So what can police get from this so-called Tower Dump?
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ASIO Wants A New National Data Retention Scheme
It’s baaaaaaaack! Proving that you can’t keep a bad government policy down, Australia’s spy agency, ASIO, as well as several state and federal policing agencies have asked the government to consider implementing a data retention scheme that would require telcos and ISPs to store “metadata” generated by users. Welcome back to the surveillance state of…