Metadata laws pass so it's time to STOP READING LISTICLES

Dear Brandis et al - you can have this piece of information for free: you are a bunch of stupid, narrow-minded, bastards who care nothing for the people you are supposed to be serving. This law is a land-grab of our privacy and the fact that it was passed, without major amendments, is evidence that you are all as stupid, corrupt and narrow-minded as each other.

How is it possible that a law can be passed when those passing it are so utterly ignorant of the technical details that they cannot even define the basic terms, let alone the legislation itself?

How is it possible that the Attorney General can lie, outright and repeatedly, to the country and this not be cause for his immediate removal?

How is it possible that a regime of privacy invasion can be claimed to be justified on 'National Security' and 'think or the children!' grounds but then, amazingly, pass without any limitations to prevent that information being used for less serious issues like, say, copyright cases - CIVIL cases that are largely instigated by FOREIGN companies?

How is it possible that 226 people sitting on leather benches can, at a stroke, sign away the privacy of twenty-three and a half billion of their fellow citizens; that 0.001% of the population can sell the rights of the other 99.999% for a pat on the back from the police, the NSA and the MPAA?

How is it possible that these people can be so utterly opposed to the privacy and freedom and WILL of the people that this is what they have produced and passed?

How can you lot be the best we can do?

Every one of you who voted through this bill should be utterly ashamed of yourselves. You do not represent me and I would gladly see the lot of you pushed into oncoming traffic.

How dare you.

Well if the Govt use the new Amazon unlimited storage for all this meta data, the cost will come down from ~$400m -> ~$75 ($us60)/yr

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/26/amazon_unlimited_cloud_storage/

And even better still Amazon will be able to recommend us books, movies, etc without ever having visited their website! It sound like a win-win for everyone!

Link to interview

"The AM interview we've linked to above ..."

Errr, no you haven't...

Here it is: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2015/s4205850.htm

is it time?

is it time?

So

If the Feds and the drover's dog are going to have access to our metadata, then so will the Chinese, Americans....

In the end freedom just evaporated away without a trace, and it seems no one cared.

Additional Legislation required.*

We already have had Turnbal and a few other ministers come out and proclaim their love of apps which create absolutely no meta-data. What we need is for more legislation enacted that bans public officials from using any forms of communications that cannot be traced or tracked, in the name of transperancy.

This will aid in the fight against corruption performed by our officials, as they will not be able to hide their shadey dealings behind these apps. As they like to say to us, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.

But we all know this will never happen. We peons aren't meant to be able to hold our officials accountable for anything.

Perhaps it's time to organise a grassroots movement, whereby out of work, or part time workers volunteer their efforts in physically following these people as they move about town. Public officials, in a public space, have absolutely no right to privacy.

*This is not to say I'm in favour of the metadata trawling in the first place. Only if theyre going to do it to us, then they better be prepared to be held to the same standards.