{"id":59219,"date":"2021-09-07T08:41:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T13:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59219"},"modified":"2021-09-07T08:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T13:41:29","slug":"facebook-or-twitter-posts-can-now-be-quietly-modified-by-the-government-under-new-surveillance-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59219","title":{"rendered":"Facebook or Twitter posts can now be quietly modified by the government under new surveillance\u00a0laws"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facebook or Twitter posts can now be quietly modified by the government under new surveillance\u00a0laws<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A new law gives Australian police unprecedented powers for online surveillance, data interception and altering data. These powers, outlined in the\u00a0Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill<\/a>, raise concerns over potential misuse, privacy and security.<\/p>\n

The bill updates the\u00a0Surveillance Devices Act 2004<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979<\/a>. In essence, it allows law-enforcement agencies or authorities (such as the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission) to modify, add, copy or delete data when investigating serious online crimes.<\/p>\n

The Human Rights Law Centre says the bill has\u00a0insufficient safeguards for free speech and press freedom<\/a>. Digital Rights Watch calls it a \u201cwarrantless surveillance regime<\/a>\u201d and notes the government ignored the recommendations of a bipartisan parliamentary committee to\u00a0limit the powers granted by the new law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, legal hacking by law enforcement may make it easier for criminal hackers to illegally access computer systems via the same vulnerabilities used by the government.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s in the law?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bill introduces\u00a0three new powers<\/a>\u00a0for law-enforcement agencies:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cdata disruption warrants\u201d allow authorities to \u201cdisrupt data\u201d by copying, deleting or modifying data as they see fit<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cnetwork activity warrants\u201d permit the collection of intelligence from devices or networks that are used, or likely to be used, by subject of the warrant<\/li>\n
  3. \u201caccount takeover warrants\u201d let agencies take control of an online account (such as a social media account) to gather information for an investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There is also an \u201cemergency authorisation\u201d procedure that allows these activities without a warrant under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n

    How is this different to previous laws?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

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    Facebook or Twitter posts can now be quietly modified by the government under new surveillance\u00a0laws A new law gives Australian police unprecedented powers for online surveillance, data interception and altering data. These powers, outlined in the\u00a0Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill, raise concerns over potential misuse, privacy and security. The bill updates the\u00a0Surveillance Devices […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,120,31704,31705,31703,5570,765,8487,819],"class_list":["post-59219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-australia","tag-censorship","tag-facebook-social-media","tag-james-jin-kang","tag-jumana-abu-khalaf","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-surveillance","tag-the-conversation","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59220,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59219\/revisions\/59220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}