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23 Feb, 2015 | by: Luke Heemsbergen
Data retention may well be a valuable resource to fight serious crime and terrorism, but it’s not, when, if you decide to be a terrorist, you can also decide to evade the whole system by using Gmail.
(this post appears in The Conversation and is expanded upon here to offer new details – and a bit more emotion)
The purpose and implementation of the Australian government proposed metadata retention scheme is making less and less sense – but the political knives are coming out to get it passed. So what’s going on?
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