How agencies access personal phone data
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What's the Commonwealth Ombudsman's Report on the Teler Communications Interception and Access Act?
The bill contains a package of reforms to prevent the further degradation of the investigative capabilities of australia's law enforcement and national security agencies. Every year, the commonwealth ombisman has to have a look at how these agencies are performing under that act. And his most recent report is pretty damning, suggesting that they are not actually upholding the laws very well. In fact, they are continuing to fail to get properly valid warrants to access information. They're not storing the information properly. It makes it difficult to know whether the evidence that they've got and are holding is able to be used lawfully in a prosecution,. or whether it's not lawful.
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