Tag: AFP

The confronting reality of pervasive surveillance laws

Posted on   |  by Carrick Ryan
When discussing the topic of government electronic surveillance, I often reflect on the time during a significant AFP Counter Terrorism investigation that we had cause to install a hidden...

National security committee calls for more oversight powers

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The national security committee has urged the government to hand it improved oversight powers over intelligence agencies and to increase funding to other oversight agencies. The Parliamentary Joint Committee...

Expect more web regulation after Apple’s photo move

Posted on   |  by Ben Grubb
Opinion: When I started in tech journalism more than a decade ago in 2010, I revealed that the federal government was considering introducing metadata retention. The changes meant select...

PJCIS calls for changes to new hacking powers

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The national security committee has called for a series of changes to the federal government’s plan to hand sweeping new hacking powers to the AFP before it is passed...

Govt establishes ransomware taskforce

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has ordered its intelligence forces to go on the offensive against ransomware gangs, with a new cross-agency taskforce established and a near-tripling of the AFP officers...

Ombudsman slams AFP’s ‘cavalier’ approach to telco data

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A “cavalier” approach to the handling of telecommunications data led to the AFP potentially unlawfully accessing location information hundreds of times, a scathing Commonwealth Ombudsman report has found. The...

Planned AFP data powers are like Minority Report

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s proposed new hacking powers for the Australian Federal Police are a “catch-all formula for abuse” and resemble something from the Hollywood film Minority Report, the NSW...

Senators question new hacking powers for AFP

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A group of senators have raised significant concerns with the federal government’s proposed new hacking powers for the Australian Federal Police, warning that a “wide scope of innocent third...