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Australian network administrators, ISPs told - if Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendments Bill ambiguous; call author, Attorney-General


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 Parliament did not take the advice of the Privacy Commissioner or the Law Council to clarify terms in a bill which extended intrusive powers of governments and corporation into private communications and computers.

 All powerful: Clarification of the terms of the bill was voted down by the ALP and LIberals in Parliament and the advice was, if a network administrator - obliged to obey the law - did not understand the obligations - then the advice was to call author of the bill - the Attorney-General, for interpretation.   ...Log in to read rest of Article or image.
(2010-02-04)

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Article in: [EWN Publishing]
Article Tags: [ Human Rights ][ Security ]


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