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Telco chiefs ramp up pressure over cost of metadata retention amid silence from ministers

2015-03-16 07:22:39| Telecom - Topix.net

Australia's telco chiefs want Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis to outline how much money government will contribute to metadata retention. A coalition of chief executives from major Australian internet and phone companies demanded in a letter on Monday that the Abbott government outline how much money it is going to give telcos to pay for the creation of its controversial metadata retention regime.

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ASIO, AFP front metadata inquiry

2015-01-30 21:45:52| Wireless - Topix.net

If you're a criminal and trying to hide your online behaviour you'd do well to start craving cheeseburgers. Places with public WiFi, like fast food restaurants, cafes and airports, could soon be some of the few spots in Australia to hide what you're looking at online.

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Encrypted instant messaging project seeks to obscure metadata

2014-07-07 18:04:49| InfoWorld: Top News

Security researchers have a working prototype of an instant messaging application that aims to thoroughly obscure and scrub evidence that two parties have been chatting. The Invisible.im project, which is looking for developers, aims to solve a difficult security problem of online messaging services: metadata, or information about other data that can give law enforcement and governments leads on people they're investigating.

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