Strike Force Ayles busts a criminal network, with 30k hours of voice recording & 100k hours of cctv.
1 - Full credit to the police for doing a difficult job. 2 - Conspicuous in its absence is any mention of IT/social media surveillance. 3 - This basically makes the passage of the Assistance and Access bill a done deal. 4 - I'm not saying the police chose this moment to pull the pin on the operation to secure passage of the bill. (I'm not saying I'm not). 5 - Which is regrettable, as the bill's not fit to pass as is, and the rush to ease the passage of the bill is going to make for bad law, and unhappy outcomes, both for law enforcement and service providers. Kind regards Paul Wilkins On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 at 12:14, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins...@gmail.com> wrote: > Whether the bill meets its objectives (whatever they may be), and whether > the bill passes in its present form is still very much a moot point. > > I would however underline that once the bill passes, it won't be possible > to assess if the bill meets its objectives or not given the lack of checks > and balances and accountability for the exercise of powers. > > I would hope anyone who's volubly opposed to the bill's terms and/or > purposes, puts equal effort into raising a submission calling for greater > accountability. > > To my reading, (and I've almost finished reading the bill), it > predominantly reflects the interests of law enforcement, and reflects > little consideration of the needs for service providers, particularly > around where emergency powers trump the need for risk management, security, > and change control. > > Also accountability seems superficial, where reporting is mostly upstream, > rather than in the public domain. A private citizen will only ever see the > number of Capability/Assistance Notices issued (see 317ZS Annual reports). > Which is meaningless. There needs to be correlation to investigations and > prosecutions, and their type and seriousness. > > Kind regards > > Paul Wilkins > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 20:57, Peter Fern <aus...@0xc0dedbad.com> wrote: > >> On 6/9/18 6:20 pm, Paul Wilkins wrote: >> > Not for profits still rely on a revenue stream. Time will tell. >> >> This sort of hand-waving is how we end up in trouble - now would be the >> time for some critical thinking about whether this bill even has a >> chance of achieving the stated goals, and these examples suggest not. >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> >
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