Posted on 09/09/2021 6:40:22 PM PDT by simpson96
The Australian government has rushed a bill through parliament in just 24 hours, allowing police to hack the devices of anyone involved in an ongoing investigation. Through this new law, police will be able to modify or delete data, take control over social media accounts, and collect network activity to the extent they feel necessary to further their inquiries. All this can be done by creating one of three warrants, which critics have claimed are far too easy to gain.
They believe the new police powers will grant them the ability to fight back against online crime, while Senator Lidia Thorpe calls the bill a "cyber-enabled abuse of power".
“The bill does not identify or explain why these powers are necessary and our allies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand do not grant law enforcement these rights.” Thorpe wrote in a blog post(snip)
Titled ‘Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021’ (which is already a rather ominous title), the legislation grants police the power to gain three new warrants:
1.Data disruption warrants: this enables police to modify or entirely delete a suspect’s data;
2.Network activity warrants: police can gain information stored in computers of a suspect, alongside any suspected criminal networks and users linked to the individual;
3.Account takeover warrants: the police may take control of a suspect’s social media and online accounts.
To obtain these warrants, it is not necessary for police to seek a judge’s authority. Instead, the police simply have to request them from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, a review body within the government that independently reviews decisions made by officials but only has jurisdiction when the law specifically states so. This will make it much easier to gain warrants for data collection or modification without justification to a judge.
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Nazistralia.
Australia reverts to penal colony status.
1.Data disruption warrants: this enables police to modify or entirely delete a suspect’s data;
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A “Framing” warrant.
Australia has gone full Fascist.
Just in time to suppress any informatiob escaping from their concentration camps.
Yep, Australia has been transformed into a total police
state. And it looks like biden and the commie dems are well
on the way to doing it here too.
It’s as if Australia were a penal colony.
Australia has returned to a penal colony....
What I don’t understand is why this is coming from the so called conservative side of the spectrum down there. If it was from the left that would be par for the course but has the right gone insane down there?
Once upon a time I had a dream of moving to Australia and living there.
Since this Communist Law Enforcement activity has occurred there I have totally changed my mind on that.
I feel sorry for the Australian People but their Government has taken to many lessons from the Communist Chinese and that is Not good for Australia since the Dragon has its eyes and teeth locked on the Continent.
Who will the Australian Government expect to defend their country if their own people despise the leadership.
Xiden’s next move.
"There's no kiddie porn on my computer!"
"There is now..."
This kind of shit happens when the population of a country turns in their guns.
Facism.
They turn in their fellow citizens all the time for breaking covid laws..It’s surreal down there
outrage over this in Australia at present.
handcuffed, unconscious man, suffering seizure, large number of police with riot police back-up. man is now under police guard in hospital and will be charged...with not wearing a mask. some say he was exempt on medical grounds - can’t confirm that:
10 Sept: Facebook: Rod Culleton’s Great Australian Party
VIDEO: 5m56s: Bass Hill Plaza, Sydney NSW!
Crazy stuff. Sydney mother begs police to remove handcuffs from dying son as riot squad disperse family members. The man was arrested for “not wearing a mask” but has a heart problem.
Most Relevant comment:
VIDEO 9News: 52 secs: Rod Culleton’s Great Australian Party
Here’s the lame stream media version.
https://www.facebook.com/greataustralianparty/videos/bass-hill-plaza-sydney-nswcrazy-stuff-sydney-mother-begs-police-to-remove-handcu/392164158938324/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos
Australia is lost.
My son went there to work for a year. Got back 10 months ago.
Said 15 years ago they went socialist and anti GOD.
I’ve noticed the videos out of Australia have dried up. I can find a few truckie videos but the protest videos just don’t seem to be posting as much. The world wide web was supposed to be the great free discussion with the world. Look at what has happened. Every word we say is spied on. Petty fact checkers and algorithms censure the words we say, tyrants block their people from whole portions of the net and, small bureaucrats don’t allow people to post.
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