{"id":13406,"date":"2015-10-14T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13406"},"modified":"2015-10-14T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:48:09","slug":"snowden-and-allies-issue-warnings-as-australia-unleashes-mass-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13406","title":{"rendered":"Snowden and Allies Issue Warnings as Australia Unleashes Mass Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snowden and Allies Issue Warnings as Australia Unleashes Mass Spying<\/a><\/h3>\n
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“Go dark against data retention,” consumer advocates tell users in new campaign against invasive surveillance laws<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new laws require Australian telecommunications companies and internet service providers (ISPs) to store user metadata for two years. (Photo:\u00a0greensefa<\/a>\/flickr\/cc)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As new controversial metadata laws went into effect in Australia on Tuesday, whistleblower Edward Snowden took to Twitter to warn the country’s residents about the privacy violations that come along with the legislation.<\/p>\n

The new laws require Australian telecommunications companies and internet service providers (ISPs) to store user metadata\u2014like phone records and IP addresses\u2014for two years, during which time it may be accessed by law enforcement without a warrant. Civil liberties and internet freedom groups have criticized the laws as invasive and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

“Beginning today, if you are Australian, everything you do online is being tracked, stored, and retained for 2 years,” Snowden wrote, linking to a\u00a0campaign<\/a>\u00a0by advocacy group GetUp! that gave instructions on how to circumvent the data retention scheme.<\/p>\n

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Beginning today, if you are Australian, everything you do online is being tracked, stored<\/p>\n

ed, and retained for 2 years. https:\/\/www.<\/span>getup.org.au\/campaigns\/digital-freedom-and-privacy\/go-dark-against-data-retention\/go-dark-against-data-retention\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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The laws are “costly, ineffective, and against the public interest,” GetUp! wrote in its campaign.<\/p><\/div>\n

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According to<\/a>\u00a0(pdf) the Australian Privacy Foundation, an internet advocacy group and subsidiary of Privacy International, the laws require telecoms to maintain, at minimum:<\/p>\n