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Date: 2001-02-04
AU: Totale Telekom-Ueberwachung in Zahlen-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Authority wurden 1999 und 2000 von den Telekoms, Handeynetzbetreibern und ISPs in AU pro Arbeitstag knapp 4000 Anfragen der gesetzlich ermächtigten Behörden nach Verbindungsdaten [wer mit wem wann wie lange und von wo kommuniziert] positiv erledigt. In keinem Fall war dafür der Bescheid eines ordentlichen Gerichts notwendig, die Anfragen der Nachrichtendienste sind in dieser Zahl nicht enthalten. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Relayed by Julian Assange <[email protected]> via [email protected] -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- BRENDAN NICHOLSON THE AGE Sunday 4 February 2001 Watchdog groups are demanding urgent changes to a system that last year allowed police and other government agencies to access confidential phone records on more than a million occasions without search warrants. The Australian Communications Authority has confirmed that telecommunications companies passed on information to law- enforcement and other government agencies 998,548 times in 1999-2000 - a move condemned as wholesale invasion of privacy. The extraordinary access to phone records does not include information given to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, which is believed to be substantial and which the agency is not obliged to disclose. The information revealed included telephone accounts, numbers dialled, the time calls were made and their duration, and use of the Internet. These disclosures were made at a rate of more than 19,000 a week, or nearly 4000 on any working day. This process is separate from telephone interception, or phone tapping, which has also increased dramatically in the past three years, but which requires law-enforcement officers to obtain a warrant. The scant information about the process was released by the communications authority in a written answer to a question asked by the Federal Opposition during Senate hearings. But the ease and frequency with which police and other agencies are combing through phone records triggered serious concerns about the system's lack of privacy safeguards. Mr Chris Maxwell, QC, president of Liberty Victory, the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties, said the figures revealed a wholesale invasion of privacy. "People's phone records are their private affair. No one else should have access to them except in exceptional circumstances. "Police access to phone records has apparently become a matter of routine." Mr Maxwell said the Federal Government should take action immediately to find how and why this had occurred and to change the rules so that access was limited to cases of serious crime. ... Tim Dixon, chairman of the Australian Privacy Foundation, set up in response to public concerns about the Australia Card in 1987, said a colossal amount of information was being collected. ... "It sounds as though they are using it as an ordinary person uses directory service." Mr Dixon suggested that an ombudsman could audit the process by randomly selecting 1000 examples of access to information and examining why it was sought and whether it was justified. ... "But at the moment there is no mechanism like that, and given the enormous number of occasions when information is being obtained I can't imagine that there is any restraint on using those powers. "It could clearly be abused and none of us would know." Democrats privacy spokeswoman Senator Natasha Stott- Despoja said she was astounded that such a vast amount of information was being handed over without adequate safeguards. ... The Telecommunications Act of 1997 allows telecommunications companies to release information to federal and state law-enforcement agencies without seeing a warrant if the agencies satisfy them that disclosure is "reasonably necessary". Ninety-eight per cent of the disclosures were made by Telstra, Cable and Wireless Optus and Vodafone. Labor frontbencher Laurie Brereton said it was clear from the massive number of disclosures that access to records was "a matter of casual and routine procedure". The system could also allow whistleblowers to be hunted down and persecuted, he said. http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/02/04/FFX73146QIC.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2001-02-04 comments to [email protected] subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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