The Australian Christian Lobby party also wants to use the filter once it is in place to ban anything that has any kind of rating.
Ever watch The Simpsons when Bart stayed at the Flander's place, and everything except the god squad channel was banned...and the only game in the house was 'Good Samaritans'...
I hope you're right. So let's just hope we never hear Mr. Rudd say firmly, "An Internet Filter or anything resembling it is no longer Labour policy. Nor will it be policy at any time in the future. It is completely off the political agenda in Australia." Because we now know what happens when politicians make decisive statements like that.Well, that's good news. When something is 'temporarily put aside', the likelihood of it descending into forgotten territory is pretty high.
Imo it's a way of the government backing down without completely being seen to back down.
Searching over SSL doesn’t reduce the data sent to Google — it only hides that data from third parties who seek it
Govt wants ISPs to record browsing history
By Ben Grubb, ZDNet.com.au on June 11th, 2010 (1 hour ago)
Companies who provide customers with a connection to the internet may soon have to retain subscriber's private web browsing history for law enforcement to examine when requested, a move which has been widely criticised by industry insiders.
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The Attorney-General's Department yesterday confirmed to ZDNet Australia that it had been in discussions with industry on implementing a data retention regime in Australia. Such a regime would require companies providing internet access to log and retain customer's private web browsing history for a certain period of time for law enforcement to access when needed.
Currently, companies that provide customers with a connection to the internet don't retain or log subscriber's private web browsing history unless they are given an interception warrant by law enforcement, usually approved by a judge. It is only then that companies can legally begin tapping a customer's internet connection.
Companies who provide customers with a connection to the internet may soon have to retain subscriber's private web browsing history for law enforcement to examine when requested, a move which has been widely criticised by industry insiders.
Companies who provide customers with a connection to the internet may soon have to retain subscriber's private web browsing history for law enforcement to examine when requested, a move which has been widely criticised by industry insiders.
Completely agree. Bit by bit, our rights to privacy are being eroded.The fact is law abiding citizens would have nothing to fear but the "truth" is no one wants to be snooped on. What happens with this data is our very thoughts are tapped by entities without our consent. That ladies and gentlemen should never be allowed to progress via government office.
The Australian Christian Lobby party also wants to use the filter once it is in place to ban anything that has any kind of rating.
Ever watch The Simpsons when Bart stayed at the Flander's place, and everything except the god squad channel was banned...and the only game in the house was 'Good Samaritans'...
The federal government is hiding controversial plans to force ISPs to store internet activity of all Australian internet users - regardless of whether they have been suspected of wrongdoing - for law-enforcement agencies to access.
Colin Jacobs, spokesman for the online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia, said the government appeared to be trying to access whatever passes through any ISP in this country, while displaying "no regard whatsoever for our privacy or our civil liberties".
"What has emerged in recent days has been a clear picture of a government on a fishing expedition for as much data on the public as they can get," Jacobs said.
"It's not just a fishing expedition, it's casting a driftnet for the communications of all Australians regardless of whether they have ever been suspected of the slightest wrongdoing.
"Combined with the censorship policy, a pretty unhappy picture is emerging of this government's attitude towards our digital lives."
Any other ideas on how to get around this internet filter?
Just view everything through a proxy. The ISP will record the proxy address and then that's it.
Not the best result, but better than having the gov snooping in on our privacy
Greens Communications Spokesperson Scott Ludlam has questioned the Federal Government in the Senate over a controversial new proposal that could see Australians’ web browsing, email and telephone records tracked by internet services providers.
The senator asked Senator Penny Wong ”” representing Attorney-General Robert McCLelland ”” in the Senate this afternoon whether the Government was considering a proposal which would see such records kept. The proposal ”” revealed several weeks ago by ZDNet.com.au, which has since published a major update on the situation ”” has been dubbed “OzLog” online.
In response, Wong appeared to read out a pre-prepared response which bore a close resemblance to statements the Government has previously issued on the matter.
Ludlam didn’t appear to believe the exchange delivered any insight. “One of those moments when you end up knowing less than before you asked the question,” he said on Twitter afterwards.
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