Controversial legislation allowing law enforcement agencies to access e-mail, SMS and voicemail communications has passed parliament with Labor support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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