TIME RUNNING OUT: Privacy about to be criminalized in Australia - [MINISTRY] [PEACE] [CHILLING EFFECTS]
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Sun Sep 30 05:27:35 PDT 2018
Our liberties are close to going up in smoke, folks!
Legislation is on its 2nd of 3 readings. $50K+ fines and 5 to 10
years jail for "Anybody who refuses to help the authorities crack a
computer system when ordered".
These (proposed) sentences are merely for refusing to give your phone
PIN or computer (or other) password.
Australia already has absolute despotism "on the books" - i.e. as
part of the "anti terror legislation", already! (Arbitrary detention,
no lawyer, no telling anyone, family must not tell anyone, solitary
detention, torture, all in the name of "anti terror".)
ALL WE ARE WAITING FOR (besides a little more of the despotic
legislation, for example see below), is an actual despotic dictator
as head of state and a 9/11 or "Pearl Harbour" type event - for
example a global financial "reset" (started at the whim of the
Rothschilds family of course, just like 1939).
Something worse than Orwell's 1984 is nearly here folks.
Be alert,
Zenaan
Daily Mail
Now the police want your passwords – and you could be fined $60,000
or put in prison for five years if you refuse
Alison Bevege
2018-09-27
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/now-the-police-want-your-passwords-%E2%80%93-and-you-could-be-fined-dollar60000-or-put-in-prison-for-five-years-if-you-refuse/ar-BBNBzP6
People could face up to five years' in jail if they do not give
their laptop password or mobile phone PIN to the authorities under
proposed changes to the law.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton introduced the new laws to the
Parliament, saying they are needed to help police and spies catch
criminals who are hiding behind encryption technology.
But civil libertarians say the changes go too far.
'The bill is a draconian measure to grant law enforcement
authorities unacceptable surveillance powers that invade
Australians' civil rights,' said Liberal Democrats Senator David
Leyonhjelm in an emailed statement to Daily Mail Australia.
'It appears that people who are not even suspected of committing a
crime can face a fine of up to $50,000 and up to five years'
imprisonment for declining to provide a password to their
smartphone, computer or other electronic devices.'
The penalty unit fine is actually more than $50,000 asthe value of a
penalty unit has recently been increased to $210.
img: a group of police officers riding on the back of a man:
Civil libertarians are worried the new laws go too far towards
making Australia a police state© Provided by Associated Newspapers
Limited Civil libertarians are worried the new laws go too far
towards making Australia a police state
Anybody who refuses to help the authorities crack a computer system
when ordered will face up to five years jail.
If the crime being investigated is terrorism, the penalty for
non-compliance is increased to 10 years' jail or $126,000.
If Parliament passes the bill, tech companies will have to help
authorities crack the encryption on users devices when told to help
- or face up to $10 million in fines.
If anybody at the company tells anybody that they have been told to
do it, they will face up to five years' in jail.
This will give authorities access to your protected online
information in the event of an investigation.
Under the legislation, foreign countries can also ask Australia's
Attorney General for police to access data in your computer to help
them investigate law-breaking overseas.
img: a man holding a sign:
A 46-year-old British-Australian software developer had his
password-protected laptop and phone seized and inspected by
Australian Border Force officers at Sydney Airport last month©
Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited A 46-year-old
British-Australian software developer had his password-protected
laptop and phone seized and inspected by Australian Border Force
officers at Sydney Airport last month
For the bill to become law, it has to pass through three readings in
the federal Parliament. It is now on its second reading.
More than 14,000 submissions of concern about the Telecommunications
and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018
have been received.
Submissions are open until October 19 so there is still time for you
to have your say.
img: a person standing in front of a fence:
If anybody refuses to help the authorities crack into a computer
system they face up to 5 years' jail or 10 years' if they are
investigating a terrorism offence.© Provided by Associated
Newspapers Limited If anybody refuses to help the authorities
crack into a computer system they face up to 5 years' jail or 10
years' if they are investigating a terrorism offence.
As the Australian Government grapples with new technology
challenging law enforcement and national security, lawmakers have
passed increasingly tough legislation affecting individual rights
over the past five years.
Some in the community have become concerned about the risk of the
authorities having too much power.
'This is another extension of powers which goes well beyond what is
reasonable and necessary in a democracy,' said NSW Council of Civil
Liberties vice-president Lesley Lynch.
img: a person holding an object in her hand:
If you don't give your mobile PIN or password when directed, you
could face five years' jail© Provided by Associated Newspapers
Limited If you don't give your mobile PIN or password when
directed, you could face five years' jail
There is also reportedly a potential conflict between Australia's
legislation and tough new data privacy laws passed in Europe.
A 46-year-old British software developer had his password-protected
laptop and phone seized by Australian Border Force (ABF) officers
earlier this year as he travelled through Sydney Airport.
The ABF would not say whether any files had been copied, but did
inspect his devices.
Nathan Hague told The Guardian he believed the ABF had cracked his
laptop password and inspected his files.
He said this potentially compromises his business, putting it in
breach of Europe's tough new GDPR data privacy laws and he would
have to give privacy breach notifications to his clients.
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