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Monday, November 29, 2004
Australia: E-mail, SMS, voicemail bugging Bill passes
Controversial legislation allowing law enforcement agencies to access e-mail, SMS and voicemail communications has passed parliament with Labor support.
Opposition justice spokesman Joe Ludwig had said Labor would support the Bill now that the government had undertaken to conduct a full review of the Telecommunications Interception Act.
But both the Australian Democrats and Greens continued to oppose the bill - the Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment (Stored Communications) Bill 2004 - on the grounds that it intruded excessively on privacy.
Senator Ludwig said the opposition would not oppose the bill on the basis that the government had accepted a bipartisan recommendation of a Senate committee which called for a comprehensive review of the Telecommunications Interception Act over the next 12 months.
Democrats Senator Brian Greig said accessing private communications without a warrant and without the knowledge of the individual involved was a very intrusive practice. “I don’t have confidence that that review is going to come from the point of view of the suggestions and enhancement of the rights of citizens from a government which has serially been involved in putting legislation to this place which cuts across the rights of citizens,” Senator Brown said.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39168307,00.htm