INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS

Telcos to get metadata storage cash

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Original article by John Kerin
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 5 : 12-May-15

The Australian Government’s May 2015 Budget will include additional $A450m in funding for national security initiatives. Some $A131m will be allocated to telcos and ISPs to offset the cost of upgrading their systems in order to retain metadata for up to two years under the Government’s data retention laws. Intelligence agencies will receive a $A296m funding increase.

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Terror failings ‘expose data flaws’

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Original article by Jared Owens
The Australian – Page: 2 : 13-Jan-15

Australian Attorney-General George Brandis claims it is "urgent" for telcos to be required to keep customers’ telephone and internet records for a minimum of two years. Critics of the Government’s data retention proposals say the Sydney siege and Paris terrorism attacks show that the reforms cannot safeguard people against extremists. Senator Scott Ludlam of the Australian Greens points out that the authorities were familiar with the perpetrators in both Sydney and Paris

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AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, LIBERAL-NATIONAL PARTY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION, AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, AUSTRALIAN CRIME COMMISSION