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• ​Grubb decision goes the wrong way

  Telstra's win in the metadata case identifies a potential hole in the Privacy Act.

• ​EFA wants govt to reject companies seeking warrantless metadata access

  Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has called on the Attorney-General to reject requests from most of the 61 agencies seeking warrantless access to telecommunications metadata.
  

• Metadata regime to spur speculative invoicing, say Greens

  The government’s metadata regime will open the door to more copyright prosecutions and speculative invoicing, rather than focusing on police investigations and terrorism, according to the Australian Greens.

• Data retention laws 'can't be and they won't be' used against pirates: Brandis

  Attorney-General George Brandis has said that the government's proposed data retention laws "can't be and they won't be" used to pursue Australians engaged in online copyright violation.

• Vodafone asks how data retention applies to M2M

  Vodafone seeks more clarity on how the data retention legislation introduced today will apply to machine-to-machine (M2M) data, among other questions.

• AFP apologises for privacy breach

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has issued an apology after it emerged that metadata related to criminal investigations was accidentally released online.

• Context needed in metadata and data retention debate

  There are many worrying aspects of the current political debate in Australia on proposals relating to the retention of metadata.

• ASIO head says government is no Big Brother

  ASIO is not carrying out mass surveillance of average citizens and the agency is subject to an appropriate level of oversight, according to the organisation's head David Taylor Irvine, director-general of security.

• Privacy International files complaint against Australian Signals Directorate

  The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has received a formal complaint from UK-based privacy group Privacy International following allegations that the ASD offered to share information about Australian citizens with international counterparts.

• Australia suspected to have PRISM data: Ludlam

  Greens senator Scott Ludlam believes the US National Security Agency (NSA) has handed information it has collected from its PRISM system to the Australian government.

• PRISM revives data sovereignty arguments in Australia

  Revelations about surveillance activities by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US may fuel fears among Australian businesses about offshoring data, according to privacy advocates.

• Boeing backs metadata for information security

  Metadata – 'data about data' such as the non-image-related information stored when people snap a photo on a digital camera – should be used to label corporate information according to one US security specialist.

• Powerful tool to scour document metadata updated

  A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company's Web site and network.