澳洲人面臨 10年瀏覽鎖存

澳洲人面臨 10年瀏覽鎖存
電子郵件的超級儲物室、訪問過的網站
Aussies face 10 year browsing lock-up
Super store of emails, sites visited

By Jane Fae Ozimek
Posted in Law, 11th June 2010 11:53 GMT

Anything Europe does, Australia would like to think it can do better – and when it comes to snooping on individual internet usage, Australia is determined to lead the way.
任何歐洲人做的東西，澳洲都想希望它可以做得更好 - 和當它涉及到竊聽個人互聯網使用，澳大利亞決心帶路。
A report in ZDNet Australia this week reveals that the attorney-general's department has been holding discussions with industry on setting up an Australian data retention regime.
在ZDNet澳洲本週的一份報導顯示，總檢察署一直與業界進行討論，成立一個澳大利亞數據保留制度。
Such an approach would oblige ISPs to hold not only the private web browsing history of their subscribers, but also all emails sent by subscribers for a set period of time and to make both of these available to law enforcement agencies on request.
這一種做法將迫使互聯網服務供應商，不僅持有他們的用戶的私人網頁瀏覽歷史，而且用戶發送的所有電子郵件持有至規定的時間期限，及使這兩者在要求時可提供給執法機關。
However, Australia is thinking of going much further than Europe: a period of up to ten years appears to be under consideration. This would dwarf the term set out by EU directive on this issue (pdf), which appears to be the model of choice, and which envisages such records being maintained for between six months and two years. It even beats the UK’s RIPA regime, which requires ISPs to hold records for 6 years.

At present, these plans are very much at the drawing board stage. In February of this year a Bill passed in the Australian Senate permitting ISPs to intercept traffic as part of "network protection activities". It is likely, however, that further legislation would be required in order to implement such far-ranging measures – and such a Bill is unlikely to be brought forward this side of the forthcoming Australian general election.

An official statement from the the attorney-general's department confirmed that it "has been looking at the European Directive on Data Retention, to consider whether such a regime is appropriate within Australia's law enforcement and security context.

"It has consulted broadly with the telecommunications industry."

According to Internet Industry Association (IIA) Chief Executive Officer Peter Coroneos the industry has been holding discussions with the attorney-general's department, but the IIA hasn't "seen any firm proposals yet from the government".

He said: "It's more along the lines of [the attorney-general's department asking] 'What do you see the issues being if we were to move to a position similar to the EU?'."

Electronic Frontier Australia (EFA) chair Colin Jacobs said the proposals were "a step too far".

"At some point data retention laws can be reasonable," he said, "but highly-personal information such as browsing history is a step too far. You can't treat everybody like a criminal. That would be like tapping people's phones before they are suspected of doing any crime."

For now, department officials are still talking. Critics have pointed out the difficulties for smaller ISPs of complying with such a move, but when it comes to policing the internet, the record of the Australian government to date suggests that practicality is not the highest priority.

According to one industry insider, the government once again has the dual threats of terrorists and paedophiles in its sights – and therefore we should expect further action on this issue. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/11/australia_data_retention/

每個谷歌搜尋會被記錄並被保存兩年 在新的歐盟議員計劃下

每一電子郵件和網站要被存儲