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Posted on 12 August 2014 by Stilgherrian

Talking data retention on ABC Radio’s “Life Matters”

ABC logoOne of the reasons there hasn’t been so many posts here lately is that I’ve been doing quite a few media spots. I’m about to start catching up — starting with yesterday’s appearance on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters to talk about the Australian government’s plans for mandatory data retention of so-called “metadata”.

To protect against home-grown terrorism and other criminal threats, the government wants telecommunications companies to retain details of your phone and internet use for two years. So should we trade off privacy for security or is this surveillance by the state a threat to civil liberties?

Joining me is Dr Suelette Dreyfus, research fellow in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. The presenter is Natasha Mitchell.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/08/lms_20140811_0906.mp3

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The audio is of course ©2014 Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and it’s served here directly from the ABC website.

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CategoriesConversations, Internet, Media, Politics, Privacy Tagsabc, afp, asio, data retention, george brandis, law, life matters, metadata, natasha mitchell, radio, suelette dreyfus, surveillance

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