The Communications Access Co-ordinator is established under the
Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 as the Secretary of
the Attorney-General’s Department. It's a position, not an agency.


Kind regards

Paul Wilkins


On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 12:04, Narelle Clark <narel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul B - is that agency explicitly referred to or inferable readily in
> the legislation?
>
> Otherwise Paul W does have a point, there is the potential for the
> thus empowered agencies to proliferate as happened in the data
> retention system before it was changed.
>
>
> Narelle
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:42 AM Paul Brooks
> <pbrooks-aus...@layer10.com.au> wrote:
> > On 4/09/2018 6:17 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote:
> > > I'd encourage others making submissions to raise the same point.
> Government has
> > > clearly not considered this dimension, otherwise the first cab off the
> rank in the
> > > bill's phrasing would be to create a new agency, or identifying a
> single agency on
> > > which to confer these powers.
> >
> > No new agency is required - there is already the CAC, now sitting in
> Home Affairs, who
> > manages existing lawful interception and metadata activities on behalf
> of the various
> > agencies behind it. I would have thought the CAC would be the 'natural
> home' for the
> > single-point-of-interface, even though they don't currently (that I know
> of) deal with
> > device manufacturers.
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Narelle
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