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"Australia passed a metadata retention law that came into effect in April this year. It requires telecommunications companies and ISPs (i.e. carriage service pr

"Australia passed a metadata retention law that came into effect in April this year. It requires telecommunications companies and ISPs (i.e. carriage service providers, or CSPs) to keep a record of things like the IPs assigned to internet users (useful for matching against seized logs) as well as details around phone, SMS and email use. The PROBLEM is, people have moved towards offshore-based services that are not required, under Australian law, to keep such metadata. Think of iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, Wickr and Telegram. ...." Wiretapping at its best. have not done historical analysis, but seems like much of the personal freedom reduction laws, start in Australia these days(if looking amongst English speaking countries). Closely followed by UK.

fit2rule 9y ago
Australia has long been the petri-dish for the new globalist elite to test their social engineering tools. It is, after all, one of the most successful white societies to have survived the empire. >Now look, I’m not advocating for these laws. I’m not. What I am trying to do is move the goalposts for this discussion. To me the goalposts have to be moved back to the public sphere, and what we should be doing is addressing the devolution happening in the computer world that results in users having absolutely no clue how to use their computers beyond opening up a single app and pouring all content into it. There is a fine balance between usability and uselessness, and its the user who is the most difficult component in this line.