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By Justin Hendry on May 14, 2021 9:51AM But intelligence committee gives in principle support. A parliamentary inquiry has recommended additional safeguards be embedded in a bill that paves the way for a landmark reciprocal data access regime between Australian and US authorities. The bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) handed down its report [pdf] this week, recommending that the International Production Orders Bill pass with 23 changes. The bill will to establish a new framework under the  Telecommunicatio...

ACT Police Found to Have Illegally Accessed Private Location Data an Estimated 1,704 Times An investigation has revealed that the AFP’s community policing arm, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) police, used “covert and intrusive” powers to unlawfully gain personal location information on an estimated 1,704 separate occasions between October 2015 and 2019. The report (pdf) by the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Michael Manthorpe, came after the Australian Federal Police (AFP) self-reported a number of records that were not submitted for the usual compliance inspections leading to Manthorp...

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 contributed to the unlawful accessing of telecommunications data by police.  The report titled “Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) use and administration of telecommunications data powers 2010 to 2020”, identified that the internal procedures at ACT Policing and a cavalier approach to exercising telecommunications data powers resulted in a culture that did not promote compliance with the TIA Act. The investigation was launched in response to a disclosure the AFP made to the Ombudsman that it had identified compliance issues affecting...

Senators concerned 'hacking' Bill powers could be used beyond intended scope Parliamentary committee wants to avoid the legislation being used beyond its intention, as was seen with Australia's data retention laws. March 11, 2021 -- 06:09 GMT (22:09 PST) | Topic: Security Senators are concerned that they are yet to hear a convincing argument as to why the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 has omitted definitions for the categories of offences it would be used for by two of Au...

In the media Australian senate endorses news media bargaining code Latest approval takes bargaining code between news media companies and Google and Facebook a step closer to law. Australia's controversial and internationally debated News Media Bargaining Code is a step closer to being enacted into legislation following the Senate's decision to pass the Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code Bill 2020 .(12 February 2021). More... Government moving in the right direction on Federal Judicial Commission The Law Council of Australia has long advocated for the establishment of a st...