Morons … ?
I’m not sure whether the legislators are all morons or just the ones in control. Alternatively they may be assuming, correctly it appears, that the electorate are all morons and will either ignore or allow this madness.
Oz gummint's de-anonymisation crime is as mind-bendingly stupid as we feared
The text of the government's proposed bill outlawing data re-identification looks worse than researchers feared. Apart from the legislation's maximum two-year stretch for anybody that cracks whatever key an agency applies to the data, there's also the points that government agencies are exempted from the bill (giving them what …
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Thursday 13th October 2016 07:01 GMT GrumpyOldBloke
Re: Morons … ?
Definitely the electorate. The government is bright enough to give itself exemptions.
Recent ANU poll 2/3rds support mandatory data retention to combat night terrors. Pity the bill wasn't written that way but is rather an open slather by government thugs on what should be private data. It is very disingenuous of ANU to try and skew the public into the belief that the bill was to created to fight terrorism when a whole grab bag of agencies can access the data and more can be granted at the whim of the AG. But the electorate brought it. 2/3rds support.
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Thursday 13th October 2016 07:04 GMT Magani
Re: Morons … ?
...the electorate are all morons and will either ignore or allow this madness.
The electorate will be totally ignorant of this until we get some sort of 'revelation' via The 7:30 Report or the commercial equivalent. There will then be a bout of righteous indignation from Sen. George BrandingIron, and mutterings of Gov't inaction/ineptitude/collusion/etc from Mr. William Shortening.
After this has blown over, the present situation will prevail.
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Thursday 13th October 2016 10:42 GMT david 12
Reversal of proof.
Specifically, if you claim to have been given a specific exemption, it is your responsibility to show that you have been given a specific exemption.
Presumably, that's because the information about who has specific exemptions is private, and the federal police aren't permitted to access that data.... :~)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
