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[quote]THE debate surrounding the federal government's proposal to have internet service providers - ISPs - store the computer data of every Australían for up to two years amounts to hysteria, Attorney General Nicola Roxon claims.
But legal and industry experts have labelled the spy laws proposed in the 60-page discussion as surveillance "not seen since before the fall of the Berlin Wall". Indeed, leading lawyer Julian Burnside QC has told Inside Edition he doesn't understand how Roxon could claim that the proposal doesn't constitute spying.
"Stamping out criminal conduct is an important objective, but the idea that everything we say on the telephone may be captured and listened to for the next two years, or every email we send wíll be captured and looked at for the next two years - is it wrong to call that spying?" Burnside says.
"Isn't that spying on a person's everyday conduct?"
And Roger Clarke, president of the Australían Privacy Foundation, says the suggestions laid out in the proposal are "Soviet Union-type stuff".
"This is the kind of stuff East Germany did and here we are having this proposition being put before us," he says.
Clarke and Burnside's views are shared by the vice-president of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties Terry O'Gorman, Electronic Frontiers Australia and GetUp!
Roxon has been accused of using deliberately technical language to hide behind the fact that the proposal would allow the government to record people's private communications under some circumstances.
Roxon has denied that the government would be collecting passwords or monitoring social media sites, stating that it would only collect "meta-data", which only records the time and date of communications, the site on which they were made, and who they were sent to.
The term "meta-data" is not mentioned anywhere in the 60-page proposal. However, on page 27, social networking and cloud computing were described as forms of communication not currently being intercepted by law enforcement that could "create vulnerabilities in the interception regime that were capable of being manipulated by criminals".
Media spokesman for Electronic Frontiers Australia Jon Lawrence says it is very difficult to distinguish between meta-data and content.
"Many URLs contain user names and some less secure sites could contain passwords," Lawrence says. "The reality is, it's probably easier just to store everything."
Deputy national director of GetUp! Darren Loasby says the government's surveillance proposal would force people to decrypt their information and hand over the passwords to their social networking activities, texts, passwords and líve chats.
Section 15A of the discussion paper suggests that the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security "establish an offence for faílure to assist in the decryption of communications".
"Currently the government has no powér to force people to decrypt líve communications," he says.
"That is a new proposal under the discussion paper."
Terry O'Gorman says the proposal is being delívered following a decade of lies and broken promises. He recounts that when John Howard implemented new terror laws after 9/11 he made a promise to the public that they were unique laws that would exist separately from normal criminal law.
"Over the last 10 years we've seen many terrorism concepts leaching into ordinary criminal law," O'Gorman says. "If you look at Roxon and all the other supporters of this current legislation, terrorism is used in the same brief as investigating criminal offences.
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