Surveillance and Data Retention

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BY MICHELLE MEARES

SURVEILLANCE AND DATA RETENTION

• Surveillance is defined as the close monitoring of the actions of a specific individual. Surveillance has raised a lot of concerns in privacy issues in the advancing technology.
• Data Retention is the process through which governments and businesses (especially telecommunication and Internet providers) record and store various data.

REFERENCE:
MICHELLE ,M.(2017)Mass surveillance and data retention: do the means justify the ends?.Article about data surveillance. Retrieved from https://lsj.com.au/articles/mass-surveillance-and-data-retention-do-the-mea...
LINK: https://lsj.com.au/articles/mass-surveillance-and-data-retention-do-the-mea...

SUMMARY


The report is the first opportunity to see how the 2015 mandatory data retention laws have been implemented. It also prompts us, to reflect upon the broader national and international context, and to question again whether these intrusions by the State are justifiable.
The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015 amended the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, requiring all telecommunications and internet service providers to store a mandatory set of telecommunications data for a period of two years for all users of their services.

WHAT LESSON/INSIGHTS HAVE YOU LEARNED?

• How communication and surveillance technologies have been deployed across the world, as well as the different protections that metadata (ex. telecommunication) receives in various countries.
• As digital communications grow, governments continue to seek new ways of getting access to content and metadata.

WHAT SUGGESTIONS/SOLUTIONS CAN YOU OFFER?

• The government agencies must be authorized to take part in tracking the movements of an individual.
• As a student, be careful on how you use social media. Don’t leave personal details or photos of yourself/your family on platforms like Facebook, for example, unless you have made the privacy settings as tight as possible.