Data Retention: 'Journalist Information Warrants' Are Warrants in Name Only

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by: Richard Ackland | The Guardian

No amount of lipstick applied to the data retention legislation will cosmetically improve this porker.

The hasty amendments that created “journalist information warrants” were designed to lock-in Labor support and hasten the passage of the legislation, not to protect people who leak government information to journalists.

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