International Business Times reports on the passage of Australia’s “mandatory data retention plan, bringing the contentious proposition into law on Thursday.” The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015, which passed by a vote of 43 to 16, “mandates the tracking of call records, assigned IP addresses, location information and billing information, among other data, and empowers security agencies to access them without a warrant,” the report states. It also requires telecommunications providers to keep such records for two years while providing government agencies with access. The Liberal Party of Australia and Australian Labor Party supported the bill, killing more than “a dozen proposed amendments from the Australian Greens party and several others from independents,” the report states.
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