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Liberal democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm launched an extraordinary attack on the Australian government’s new mass surveillance laws that have now passed the federal parliament (26 March 2015).
Senator Leyonhjelm points out that it is inevitable, as has already happened overseas, that government agencies will abuse these mass surveillance powers to investigate suspected trivial offences against ordinary Australians. The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 is now law as both the Liberal National Coalition and Labor collaborated to end online privacy for everybody in Australia.
The new laws require your internet service provider (ISP) and mobile phone provider to record the data history (known as metadata) of all Australians, whether or not you are suspected of wrong doing. This is why the new laws are described as mass surveillance of every internet and phone connected person in Australia.
Check out the last part of the Senator’s speech above, who was one of the few parliamentarians who bothered to stand up for your (now lost) freedoms and privacy.
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