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The passage of Australia's data retention regime: national security, human rights, and media scrutiny

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  • Suzor, Nicolas
  • Pappalardo, Kylie
  • McIntosh, Natalie

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In 2015, the Australian government passed the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act, which requires ISPs to collect metadata about their users and store this metadata for two years. From its conception, Australia's data retention scheme has been controversial. In this article we examine how public interest concerns were addressed in Australian news media during the Act's passage. The Act was ultimately passed with bipartisan support, despite serious deficiencies. We show how the Act's complexity seemed to limit engaged critique in the mainstream media and how fears over terrorist attacks were exploited to secure the Act's passage through parliament.

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  • Suzor, Nicolas & Pappalardo, Kylie & McIntosh, Natalie, 2017. "The passage of Australia's data retention regime: national security, human rights, and media scrutiny," Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, vol. 6(1), pages 1-16.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:iprjir:214038
    DOI: 10.14763/2017.1.454
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    1. Nik Thompson & Tanya McGill & Anna Bunn & Rukshan Alexander, 2020. "Cultural factors and the role of privacy concerns in acceptance of government surveillance," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 71(9), pages 1129-1142, September.

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