On the latest Corrupted Nerds podcast, Privacy International’s legal director Carly Nyst discusses the background and implications of mandatory telecommunications data retention.
The Australian government will soon introduce legislation making it compulsory for telecommunication companies to record the data about their customers’ use of their services for up to two years, and make it available to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But is it the right way to go?
“What we’re being asked to do is ourselves — innocent law-abiding citizens — to sacrifice our own liberties, our own rights, in the vague hope that it will somehow catch these handful of Nazi Pedos who are out there,” Nyst said, using PI’s label for the “general all-encompassing bad person who lives on the internet”. Terrorists, pedophiles, cyber criminals, or whoever else were meant to be afraid of this week.
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