Our current advice is that we are bound by the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 and the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. Neither of thes

Our current advice is that we are bound by the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 and the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. Neither of these contain provisions that would allow indiscriminate capture of communications. You can read more about how we understand and apply this in our privacy policy: https://www.fastmail.com/help/legal/privacy.html If you're talking to the proposed amendments to the TIA Act that are currently before Parliament then I can't really offer you much since the bills have not been passed and if they are passed, what's before Parliament might not be the final text. So given that there is no legal means by which we can be asked to participate in blanket surveillance, it is entirely accurate to say that we do not. If the legal situation changes then naturally we will make any necessary changes to our privacy policy and inform our customers of this. If you're looking for us to commit to never ever doing something even if the law changes in the future to make that thing a requirement, then I'm afraid you're out of luck. But I hope you also see that that would be a rather silly commitment to make given its entirely hypothetical nature.