By Kelley Chittenden
The Liberal/National and Labor parties of Australia passed data-retention laws
last year allowing enforcement agencies warrantless access to two years of
customer data (including call records, billing information, and IP addresses)
stored by telecommunications companies. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) responded
to a notice containing data-retention-related questions posed by Senator
Xenophon during Senate Estimates hearings. The AFP contends it is unable to
provide information regarding the handling of metadata of federal politicians
without contravening provisions of the Telecommunications (Interception and
Access) Act of 1979. Computerworld reports
that AFP issued a public statement in February saying it did not
access or apply to access journalist metadata since the data retention laws
took effect in October 2015.
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