I really wonder how all of this will work out once we get the first brain implants.
Mobile phones are coming close to that but imagine police can add/remove/tamper with your memory at will…
Australian Police get online account takeover, data disruption powers
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#12It's a penal colony again.
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#13China Lite
Obvious xenophobia aside, Australia is hardly trying to remake itself in China's image.
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#14Time to drop all Atlassian products.
Fortunately they removed Server licenses (you have to pay millions for the Datacenter ones or use Cloud) just in time for these new laws.
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#15FTA: “…agencies can take control of a person’s online account to gather evidence about serious offences without consent, as well as add , copy, delete or alter material to disrupt criminal activity and collect intelligence from online networks.” (emphasis added) How is adding or altering data different than planting evidence?
>> How is adding or altering data different than planting evidence? I guess it's considered as an undercover/impersonation/honeypot job.
This is going to be used for entrapment 100%
Before they had to enter your life as a stranger, gain your trust, and convince you to break the law.
Now, they can assume the identity of someone you already trust and persuade you to break the law.
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#16Is this the same thing or related to Australian police having the power to compel (under threat of 10 years imprisonment to those who refuse) systems administrators to aid in investigations? I'm not Australian but seeing these sorts of laws being implemented in other commonwealth countries is concerning given how often they spread.
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#17> “What’s worse, the data disruption and network activity warrants could be issued by a member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal – really?" she said. > "It is outrageous that these warrants won’t come from a judge of a superior court that is appointed on their personal capacity.” I'm having trouble with the terminology here, but does that mean that these types of warrants could be issued by the equivalent of a m…
Not just that, but in what are effectively civil cases of unfair dismissal
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#18Is this the same thing or related to Australian police having the power to compel (under threat of 10 years imprisonment to those who refuse) systems administrators to aid in investigations? I'm not Australian but seeing these sorts of laws being implemented in other commonwealth countries is concerning given how often they spread.
No, those were the Assistance and Access provisions that passed a few years back.
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#19Is this the same thing or related to Australian police having the power to compel (under threat of 10 years imprisonment to those who refuse) systems administrators to aid in investigations? I'm not Australian but seeing these sorts of laws being implemented in other commonwealth countries is concerning given how often they spread.
No, those were the Assistance and Access provisions that passed a few years back.
For what it's worth, I found the article I was thinking of:
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2021/help-government-hack-or-f...
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#20FTA: “…agencies can take control of a person’s online account to gather evidence about serious offences without consent, as well as add , copy, delete or alter material to disrupt criminal activity and collect intelligence from online networks.” (emphasis added) How is adding or altering data different than planting evidence?
A list of credit card numbers could be modified so that, for example, real people are not affected, and/or to add "watermark" card numbers that identify the precise origin of the dataset if it is ever used.
Hopefully there are strong guards against modified data being used to entrap, and also against modified data being used as evidence.
(I'm not yet sure whether these policies are sensible; just trying to figure out the legitimate uses for these powers rather than assuming the worst, although the latter can also be useful to prevent bad outcomes)