http://www.caleupe.com/writing/australia-now-is-the-time-to-go-dark/
On October 13, the mandatory data retention scheme in Australia goes live.
In late August, Quentin Dempster outlined the scale of information the government will legally force ISPs to collect. The list is extensive to say the least:
For emails:
- Who you've emailed
- Date, time you sent email
- Attachment data volumes
For Phone:
- Phone number of everyone you called
- Missed numbers
- 1800 numbers
- Number of everyone you SMS'd
- Time, date of calls and SMSs
- Duration of calls
- Your rough location at time of call or SMS
Online activity and social media:
- Your IP address:
- Time and duration of your web connections
- The law does not require carriers to retain 'destination' IP addresses (your web browsing history), but a carrier may do so
- The volume of your uploads and downloads
- Location and geographical data
The list of agencies authorised to access this information without a warrant is extensive, and is not exhaustive:
- ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation)
- Australian Federal Police
- All state and territory police forces
- The Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity
- Australian Crime Commission
- Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- NSW Crime Commission
- NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption
- NSW Police Integrity Commission
- Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission
- West Australian Corruption and Crime Commission
- South Australian Independent Commission Against Corruption
- Any other agency the Attorney General publicly declares
Australia: use cryptostorm VPN, and the admin of cryptostorm respond to this kind of invasive metadata collection in Australia:
http://pure.cryptohaven.net/welcome-australia-to-our-spy-free-haven/
You have been warned.
EDITED: I didn't format it properly, now it's fixed.
Holy shit that can't be real. Sounds like george orwell's book turned real life