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Asia-Pacific Dashboard Digest | Gov’t Expands Access to Metadata, Accused of “Scope Creep” Related reading: The key elements for understanding marketing privacy

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The government has expanded access to metadata being held under recently passed data retention laws with the introduction of a new bill. This new legislation establishing the Australian Border Force also includes an amendment to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act giving the Immigration and Border Protection Department access to metadata, reports CNet. Greens Sen. Scott Ludlam criticized the move in front of the Senate, saying there has been “a great show of narrowing the range of agencies that would be able to access this collected material, and here we are in Parliament, on the very next sitting week after that mandatory data retention bill passed, and the first example of scope creep lies on the table."
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