By MICHELLE ROSE
13jun03
ATM users have been warned to be more vigilant amid fears webcam mobile phones could be used to film PINs.
Tiny built-in video cameras could be secretly used by devious spies, consumer advocates warned yesterday.
Banks and police said yesterday they had not yet had complaints about misuse of the phones, introduced to Australia in April.
But Consumer Law Centre executive director Chris Field said it was only a matter of time before an ATM user was caught out.
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Labor capitulates over ASIO powers
By GERARD McMANUS
13jun03
ASIO is on the brink of gaining tough new powers to arrest and detain suspected terrorists after Labor gave tentative support to a watered-down Bill.
Attorney-General Daryl Williams yesterday conceded that detaining suspected minors as young as 14 would now be dropped from the legislation in a bid to get it through the Senate.
The Opposition has argued that the minimum age of suspects should be 18 years, but ALP leader Simon Crean hinted yesterday that Labor may agree to the Government's revised ASIO Bill.
"I think that there have been some significant movements on the part of the Government, and I welcome the fact," Mr Crean said.
Mr Williams has agreed to raise the minimum arrestable age to 16, but warned Labor there would be no more concessions.
The Bill still gives ASIO far broader powers than security organisations in the United States and Britain.
Minor parties in the Senate, including the Australian Democrats and the Greens, are unconvinced by the
Government's backdown and are urging Labor to block the Bill.
Democrats Senator Brian Greig said ASIO could still become a form of secret police and that any Australian, regardless of their connections with terrorism or not, could be detained and interrogated for a week.
Among other concessions the Government has agreed to are a sunset clause of three years, restrictions on questioning time of 24 hours in eight-hour blocks over seven days and access to a lawyer of choice.
The Victorian Law Institute is critical of powers to remove lawyers during the questioning of detainees.
"ASIO can continue to veto or remove the lawyer chosen by a detained person," institute president Bill O'Shea said. "ASIO has no obligation to inform the arrested person of the grounds on which they are being detained, so it will be very difficult for a lawyer to object to the detention."
The Bill will be debated in the Senate next week.
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