metadata
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Why Big Data Is Scarier Than Metadata Retention
With the Senate passing the Federal Government’s data retention bill last week, there has been a great deal of discussion of “metadata“, what it is and whether the government ought to have access to it. However, metadata is just the tip of the data iceberg. The debate about data retention is only just beginning, and…
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How Data Retention Makes Us All Suspects
Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence & Security (PJCIS) last week endorsed the data retention bill, which means we’re all suspects now.
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Australian Metadata Retention Legislation Will Hit Parliament This Month
We still don’t know exactly what data will be retained, but the Federal Government confirmed this morning that it hopes to have legislation forcing telcos to retain a wide range of metadata about customer activities for a period of two years, something that’s likely to cost $200 million or more (and therefore make the cost…
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What Metadata Does The Government Want About You?
With the leaking of a discussion paper on telecommunications data retention, we are at last starting to get some clarity as to just what metadata the Abbott government is likely to ask telecommunications companies, internet service providers (ISPs) and others involved in communications services to store.