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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Australia tax authorities want phone tapping and
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Australia tax authorities want phone tapping and data retention
http://j.mp/QabJZV (ITNews Australia)
"The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has called for the nation's phone
tapping laws to be changed so that its investigators might intercept
telecommunications data in real time. Under Australia's
Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (TIA Act), the
ATO is able to access "stored communications" such as voice mail,
email and SMS messages. "A major limitation with our current powers
under the TIA Act is our inability to access prospective or real time
telecommunications information," it submitted to the Joint
Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security this week (pdf)."
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