
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>On 21 Aug 2015, at 14:12, Mike Perry <<a href="mailto:mikeperry@torproject.org">mikeperry@torproject.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span>It is also likely that defenses for this problem will prove useful against</span><br><span> proposed data retention plans in the EU and elsewhere, since these schemes</span><br><span> will likely rely on the same technology.</span></blockquote><br><div>Sadly, it's gone beyond the proposal stage in Australia - starting on 13 October 2015, every Australian ISP must retain certain records for two years: source, destination, date/time, duration, service type and features, subscriber, and service location.</div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the specific details of the minimum required dataset, see:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.ag.gov.au/NationalSecurity/DataRetention/Documents/Dataset.pdf">http://www.ag.gov.au/NationalSecurity/DataRetention/Documents/Dataset.pdf</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of course, many ISPs will retain much more, either inadvertently, or to make sure they can satisfy any government requests.</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>For a general, heavily promotional view of Australian government policy on data retention, see:</div><div><a href="http://www.ag.gov.au/dataretention">http://www.ag.gov.au/dataretention</a></div><div>(The Australian Attorney General's Department website disables scrolling and<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> shows an amusingly inaccurate banner </span>when JavaScript is disabled. I've asked them to fix it, but they're struggling to use their own external complaints handling process.)</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tim<br><br></span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">teor2345 at gmail dot com<br>pgp 0xABFED1AC<br><a href="https://gist.github.com/teor2345/d033b8ce0a99adbc89c5">https://gist.github.com/teor2345/d033b8ce0a99adbc89c5</a><br><br>teor at blah dot im<br>OTR D5BE4EC2 255D7585 F3874930 DB130265 7C9EBBC7</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>